Chapter 12

She hadn't moved from her chair when the sun came up. She looked over at the wall where the clock was it was 7:00 am. She sat there for a couple more hours until he finally woke up.

"How do you feel Hun?"

"Better. Thanks for spending the night with me."

"You don't need to thank me. I love you. I wanted to stay the night. You gave me such a scare I wouldn't of left if they made me."

"I'll go get Dr. Russell so she can check on you. Maybe you might be released and we could go on our honeymoon when you feel better."

A sad expression crossed Fox's face.

"What's wrong? Are you ok?"

"Yeh, I'm fine I'm just so sorry that I ruined what's supposed to be the happiest day of our lives."

"Oh, no, Nicholas don't you dare blame yourself. We couldn't have possibly imagined this would happen. No one saw it coming."

He closed his eyes and a tear fell down.

"I'll make it up to you I promise."

"I know honey. I love you. Let me go get Dr. Russell." She left but not without one more look towards him. He still hadn't opened his eyes. She saw that he was crying. She smiled. He cared so much about her happiness even when he was hurt him.

*Even if our wedding was ruined I don't care because you're still here with me. That's all that matters. *

As soon as she had left Theresa came back with Dr. Russell.

"Theresa, I know you're his wife but I still have to ask you to leave so I can look him over."

"OK, I'll be out in the hall."

When Theresa exited the room she saw that her family and Gwen were there.

"Oh, hi."

"Hello mija. How are you?"

"I'm ok mama."

"How's Fox?" Luis asked anxious to know if his friend was going to be all right.

"Just as Theresa was telling them about how Fox had spent the night Ivy and Julian showed up.

"What are you two doing here?"

"What do you mean?" Julian said shocked by the question.

"He was our son before he became your husband you know Theresa?"

"We wanted to come check up on him." Julian said as he eyed the Lopez-Fitzgerald.

"He is fine. He made it through the night." Theresa told them.

"What about Alistair? I know he was behind this. He would never let Nicholas get married to me without our wedding going undisturbed."

"He's in jail Theresa." this was Luis. "We found out that he was behind the whole thing. He had an accomplice of course who is behind the bars too. Alistair had a complete breakdown. He believes that he killed the last heir to the Crane Empire."

" I hope he rots in hell for what he did to Fox and me."

"Yeh, me too." Luis added.

As silent fell upon them Dr. Russell came out. She had looked like she had just seen a ghost. Theresa knew that the news must have been bad and a fresh wave of tears fell down her face.

"Please tell me he's ok. Please Dr. Russell. He's going to make it right?"

Just as Eve opened her mouth to tell Theresa and her family of Fox's condition the nurse at the attendance desk sent a message on the intercom to all Drs. and nurses of the hospital.

"What?" Theresa asked. "We couldn't hear you over the announcements they just made."

Eve was about to explain herself again when another doctor came to her and asked for a moment of privateness.