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Chapter 38,
Sasha was in quite a mood when she drove back to the hospital. She was able to dominate all her meetings, and her chicken Parmesan was perfect, and the future for her daughter seemed so bright. She wouldn't go so far as say that she was happy, but all of this anticipation gave Sasha a sense of elation she wasn't use to. In fact, she was so excited that she left work as soon as her 12:00 meeting was over. She managed to arrive at the hospital at 12:50. Sasha left her sunglasses on to hide her eyes, but had her satisfied smile shining to the world. She glided all the way to her daughter's room and peered in.
Cindy must be sleeping. I've never seen her breathing so calm.
Sasha thought and decided not to bother her. Why waste her time with that? She pulled out her phone and started playing solitaire until her husband walked up at 12:55.
"There you are darling?" Sasha said sweetly, giving him a hug and a peck on the cheek.
"Well, I've got to say that I could barely focus on work. Seems like we have been waiting on this to happen for 34 hours, instead of basically 4." Adam said after pulling away and he saw the smile on Sasha's face.
"You're awful cheerful. I don't think that I have ever seen you this happy. And that includes our wedding day." Adam said and Sasha shrugged.
"A lot of things went wrong on our wedding day. You should remember that, Adam." Sasha said and Adam glanced in Cindy's room and smiled.
"Still, even with a bad wedding, our marriage has worked out for both of us." Adam said and Sasha's smile tilted and she rolled her eyes.
"You're such a dork." Sasha said and Adam stood on the other side of the door and leaned against the wall.
"If I'm a dork, then you're a dork-lover." Adam said and at this moment Libby rounded the corner.
"The only dork-lover I want to see is Nick. Is he in there already?" Libby asked before looking in Cindy's room.
"Ugh, where is he? It's already one." Libby said looking at her watch and the parents looked at each other.
"Let's hope the child doesn't inherit that trait." Sasha said and Libby squeezed her thumb to avoid glaring at the woman.
"You know what, I'll just take a walk around the area. Maybe he got lost, and I can bring him here. If nothing else, I can check to see how busy everything is." Libby said and Adam nodded.
"Seems reasonable." He said and Libby walked away again.
"Do you wonder if we should have chosen a different sperm donor?" Sasha asked and Adam looked at her.
"I'm sure that we could have chosen a candidate that had more blue blood. But you forget, Sasha, that Cindy and Libby chose Nick on their own. We should respect that decision." Adam said and Sasha rolled her eyes again.
"Hm?" Sasha thought she saw a kid hiding at the end of the hall, but why on earth would a kid need to hide?
"Mr. and Mrs. Vortex. I wasn't expecting you back so soon." Sasha turned around and saw the butler standing there.
"Oh, it's you, Jack." Sasha said to the butler and he nodded.
"Yes, I was hoping to talk to you." Jack said and Sasha scoffed quietly.
"Surely any matter you wish to discuss, can wait." Sasha said and Jack straightened his back.
"Please ma'am it won't take long." Jack said and Sasha crossed her arms.
"Jack if you think that I want to speak privately to you right now, then prepared to be shocked; because I don't." Sasha said and Adam looked at his watch.
"Well, maybe you could, dear. If the boy is already late, then who knows when he will finally arrive." Adam said and Sasha paused to think on this.
"Perhaps you're correct. But we'll talk in this room beside Cindy's. I don't want to miss anything." Sasha said and Adam nodded at her subtle request.
"Alright, in you go ma'am." Jack said respectfully an Sasha smiled.
"Being polite can get you far my dear cousin." Sasha said. To think that she only hires the man in order to make her aunt happy. Jack used to be wild and mischievous and needed to be taught discipline. He didn't seem to learn anything until Cindy was born. And now that Sasha thought about it, she wasn't sure if they ever informed Cindy of Jack being family. Not that it mattered. As soon as Cindy and Libby were settled, Jack would be fired and sent back home.
Jack closed the door behind him, and he turned to Sasha.
"You need to stop this." Jack said bluntly, which Sasha respected.
"I don't need to do anything." Sasha said and Jack sighed.
"You can't let two adolescents hurt your child, Sasha. If nothing else, you should respect the 'vortex' name too much to let this happen." Jack said and Sasha smirked.
"Oh, I love it when you play dirty, dear cousin." Sasha said and Jack glared at her.
"Are you even listening to me?" Jack asked and Sasha nodded.
"Of course I am, I have no distraction from your immature whining." Sasha said and Jack blinked.
"Wow, 'immature whining', huh?" Jack repeated.
"You have no right to tell me to do anything. I'm your boss, okay. And even if you weren't my employee, I'm 7 years older then you so I'm not about to obey an innocent boy. And even if we were the same age, Cindy is my daughter, not yours." Sasha said and she took a step to her right in order to walk past Jack, but he blocked her.
"I would be a better parent to Cindy then you ever were." Jack said and Sasha took that as a challenge. And boy did she love to win.
"Oh, yeah? What am I to do? My idiotic cousin has an incorrect opinion. Help, someone help." Sasha said slowly and sarcastically.
"But, being family, it's only fair to hear the reasoning behind your stupidity." Sasha said and Jack rolled his eyes.
"Well for starters, I wouldn't be trusting a random set of kids who only care about abusing Cindy. Granted as a male who cares about Cindy, I wouldn't want her to have sex until after she was married... or... a few years after that, but still." Jack said and Sasha clicked her tongue.
"Most people don't wait for marriage, dumbass. Next?" Sasha questioned and Jack could barely believe his cousin.
"Ok, well how about all the shit you put Cindy through? I mean that piano has given your daughter 2nd degree burns. I mean, you put so much pressure and physical pain on your daughter, and I just don't get it. Your mother was so relaxed with you're up-bringing." Jack said and Sasha's mood darkened.
"My mother never prepared me for the real world, and I was treated like an outcast everywhere I went. I never knew how to properly do anything. Cindy can play piano, cook, sell anything, and now she will be settled for life. And if that means that a thousand men penetrate Cindy, then so be it." Sasha said before pushing past Jack and throwing the door open.
"I think I heard enough." A Detective at the door said.
"Yeah, me too." Jack said, pulling a tape recorder out of his pocket and smiling.
"But let's check this out, downtown. I am your idiotic cousin after all." Jack said and Charlie handcuffed Mrs. Vortex.
"You have the right to remain silent." The Detective said, but Sasha was too busy looking around for Adam. He should have been standing outside Cindy's door and he wasn't there.