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CHAPTER 8: Zander Decides to Visit His Daughter
As Zander stepped onto the elevator all he could think about how he was going to tell Emily about Erin. He started to debate whether or not to tell this to Emily, yes another secret in an ever growing pile of lies. As soon as the doors closed he takes out a piece of paper from his jeans pocket, it was Beth's address and phone number, and he takes out the picture of his daughter that was in his other pocket. He looks at the both, wondering what he should do next. *Should I tell Emily now or wait until I have gone to Beth's house and met Erin?*, thought Zander, *I wonder when the best time to tell Emily will be? I mean Dr. Hansen has told us that the chemo is working and she will be able to go home in the next few days. Maybe I should go to Beth's before Emily is out of the hospital. I still just hope that Lucky hasn't told her anything yet. I have made up my mind I am going to meet my daughter tomorrow.*
The elevator stops on the floor that Emily is on, Zander steps off and slowly proceeds to her room. He notices Lucky standing across the hall from her room, constantly looking at his watch. *What's going on?*, thought Zander. He took a few more steps, then he saw it, Nikolas dashing out of Emily's room.
Zander starts to get furious, he runs to where Nikolas is standing. Before he can take a swing at Nikolas, Lucky stops him.
"Zander, Why are you doing this?" asked Lucky.
"Because he has no right to associate with my wife. He'll try to lure her away I know it!" replied Zander.
"Zander, just because Emily has said she had feelings for me doesn't mean that I am going to use them against you.", explained Nikolas.
"Well I don't know that now do I your highness.", said Zander sarcastically, "Now if you don't mind, I have to talk to my wife."
With that Zander marched into Emily's room. He saw her sitting there in her bed doing a crossword puzzle, he noticed how much healthier she has looked over the past few days.
"Hi Zander honey," said Emily, "do you know another word for lied?"
Zander was taken aback, but then realized that it was for her crossword puzzle.
"How about fibbed?", he suggested.
"Fibbed! That works!", exclaimed Emily, "Nikolas never came up with that. All he could say was 'misled', 'faked', 'pretended'…. "
"Listen Emily," started Zander "I don't feel comfortable with Nikolas visiting you all of the time. I'm your husband I want to take care of you."
"Awww… Zander. No one could ever take care of me as good as you.", said a smiling Emily, "By the way how did the talk with your dad go?"
"About that Emily…", started Zander.