Ethan woke up before Theresa did and thought he would let her stretch out
on the bed by herself. He went down to the cafeteria and got a coffee
and also brought Theresa her favorite breakfast.
Ethan entered Theresa's room but she was already awake and a nurse was
checking on her.
"Hey..." Theresa said when Ethan entered.
"Hey..." His attention changed toward the nurse. "So...how is she doing?"
"Well...so far so good...the test results came back this morning..."
"And?" Ethan asked.
"They are what we hoped for...Mrs. Crane is going to be just fine."
Ethan smiled. "Thank god". The nurse left the room and Ethan walked over
to the bed.
Theresa chuckled, "Mmm...Mrs. Crane".
Ethan stopped smiling. "Theresa I will help you get out of that marriage
to that sleezeball".
"Yeah...but not before he destroys my son and turns him into the monster
he is."
"No...We won't let Alistair destroy him...as God as my witness we won't."
"We?" Theresa asked but not with hope.
"Yes Theresa...I love yo---little Ethan way too much to let Alistair destroy him".
"Who?"
"Little Ethan..."
"Oh..."
"And Theresa...I hate seeing you at the mercy of Alistair."
"Yeah well...I don't see our "marriage" ending anytime soon...just like
I don't see you and Gwen getting a divorce anytime soon...which you made perfectly clear last night during the little discussion we had."
"Theresa...you know I don't want to stay married...but Gwen didn't do anything to deserve this. And I gave her my word"
"And your word is shot to hell now, don't you think?" Theresa shot back.
"That's not fair..."
"Fair? You want to talk about fair? "Fair" would be you believing me when
I tell you that I am not the person who sent the damn email..."Fair" would be you seeing Gwen for the person she actually is...and "Fair" would be us being married and raising a family...Let me tell you something! Nothing about this situation is fair!"
"No Theresa...it would've been fair if you hadn't kept anything from me in the first place."
"Oh Ethan! I'm sorry okay? That was over four years ago...can't you let that go? You've forgiven your mother...my mother, yet when it comes down to it you can't forgive me? When your mother pushed herself down the stairs at the Bennett house and our word was against each other...why is it that her word was worth so much more than mine was, huh?"
"Because, you lied to me over and over again!"
"SHE lied to you for over 20 years and so what! I lied to you for a few months which by the way killed me! I couldn't even look at you without feeling guilty! But did your mother EVER show any remorse for what she did? So don't take the blame and put it on my shoulders for something your mother did!"
"Ok fine...you know I really should get going!"
"Fine, Go! That's what you're good at! The minute things don't go your way you get scared!"
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"It means that if you weren't so god damned chicken...you could have everything you've ever wanted!"
"Yeah...but at the expense of everybody else"!
"I didn't say its going to be easy! Its going to be so hard...harder than anything we've ever done before! But I want to do it cause I want to be with you!"
Just then a nurse walked in. "What in the world is going on in here! I just saw that Mrs. Crane's heartbeat nearly doubled! I don't know what you two were talking about but I think that in the best interest of Mrs. Crane's health, Mr. Winthrop that maybe you should leave and come back when she's feeling better"!
Theresa slugged back on her bed and never even looked at Ethan.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry" He said to the nurse, then he looked at Theresa who was still not looking at him and he spoke softly, "I'm sorry..."
Theresa knew that he meant that last one for her...she closed her eyes to the tears form forming and then she opened her eyes and changed her facial expression from sad...to mad.
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