Chapter 26: Ignoring Freddie

Freddie's POV

"Thanks for letting me tag along!" Maddie said as she clamored into the passenger side and the put seatbelt on." I tried to smile but I felt ill it had been over a month since I'd been a contact with Sam or Carly. I don't know where the time went I'd accidentally gone a week without speaking to her. Then when I finally did have the opportunity to apologize and catch up with her, she wouldn't talk to me. What was more surprising was that Carly was now avoiding my calls. I knew that I should have tried harder to reach to her but I at least needed the chance to explain. Plus, Sam could've reached out to me too. She had to know I would've loved to speak with her. This author I'd been working with had been monopolizing my time during the day, and Maddie had been really clingy since the break. I felt bad for her and she was using it to her advantage. That was the only reason she was with me now. I was talking a long weekend, I need to visit Sam, I refused to let another miscommunication or no communication at all by the end of our relationship, and even if she was stubborn I still need to check on the babies, nothing was more important to me than being there for those babies. I wanted them to know me. I wanted to be the father I'd never had, but my career was making me just as distant as him.

"It's SO weird that Sammy never contacted you. I mean she's carrying your kids for crying out loud!" I glared at Maddie; she'd been making little statements lately, tiny little pot shots at Sam. My mother always said Misery loves company, normally she was indicating Sam in the role of misery, and now Maddie was filling the role.

"Maddie, I'd gone a long time without calling her. She has the right to be pissed."

"But your schedule is SO busy she would understand that." Maddie turned in her seat studying me with eyes the urged me to agree with her but I just couldn't.

"Yeah, I'm sure she understands having a busy schedule. She's a very successful lawyer," I said dryly.

"You're right, maybe her schedule was so busy that she doesn't realize that you haven't called at all." Maddie had an attitude. I knew she was wrong. Sam was mad with me; she wouldn't ignore me if she wasn't ticked about something. I tried to ride most of the way in silence. It was a long ride to the private plane. I'd rented and made were in front of Sam's apartment by 10:00PM. I'd figured that if she was still ticked at me I would go to a hotel I was really hoping I wouldn't have to do that.

I went in the apartment first and asked Maddie to wait outside. I wanted the privacy of being ripped to shreds alone. I knock on the door and received no response. I knocked again louder this time and still received nothingness. "Sam, SAM! Sam, I know you're mad but … let me in please Sammy!" I knocked again, louder and louder.

"What the," Sam's neighbor came out with her baby on her hip. "Oh you," she said with a crabby tone. I was confused she had been so nice to me when we had first me.

"Hey Ms. Saylor, is Sam home?" She narrowed her eyes and looked at me with disgust.

"It's so sad that you don't even know what's going on with your baby mama." She sucked on her teeth and shook her head.

"Is Sam home?" I was now pretty angry and confused.

"Home? Dude, she moved out! Not only that, but the poor girl is in the hospital. You would've known that if you weren't such a freaking womanizer." She shook her head in disgust.

"A womanizer? Me?" I immediately and regretfully fell into a fit of laughter. My stupid action caused her to slam the door in my face. I tried to knock and get more information but again I was ignored. I pulled out my phone and attempted to contact Carly or Maxine, I just need someone with some information to let me in. I felt my hands begin to shake from anxiety. Reality and dread had hit me … what if she'd lost them? What if she'd lost the babies and I wasn't there? I looked at my phone willing it to ring after a few moments it did. I was surprised by my luck. It was an unknown number, but I answered it quickly thinking it may be someone at the hospital.

"Hello? Hello?" I said I felt the tears creeping into my throat.

"Freddie this is Dylan," the voice whispered. "I know you just tried to call Carly, they want to tell you, but I think you have the right to know. Man, you need to come back to Seattle Sam's in the hospital, you should be here."

"What's happened to her?" Dylan quickly informed me that Sam's stress level had forced her into early contractions. The doctors were monitoring her and she'd been in the hospital for over two weeks, because she keeps trying to go into labor. I held my head and slid down to the floor. My poor Sam and the babies they had to be under stress too. Dylan had been a life saver. I sprinted to my car and raced to hospital.

I got to the hospital I wasn't worried about anything but seeing Sam. I needed to see her with my own eyes, I needed to smooth my hand over her womb and know that my family was okay. I made it to the fifth floor and found myself literally running to Sam's room. I went to open the door and Carly saw me before I could come in, she met me in the hallway and blocked my entry.

"Don't you're going to me it worse; we've only had three stable days with no contractions. How do you even know to be here? Did Dylan Call you? He's a dead man if he did!" After a moment she looked past me and a rage that I'd never seen Carly embody cover her face.

"Oh my God you brought her!" Carly shoved me to the side and stormed toward my assistant, I hadn't even realized that Maddie had followed me into the hospital. Carly smacked Maddie hard across the face and made her drop to her knees. I didn't know Carly had it in her to be so violent.

"Ow! What'd I do?" Maddie cried with wide alarmed eyes.

"You know good and well what you did you Bitch! Do you realize the damage you've caused! If these babies die the blood is your hands and I will mess you up!" Carly went to lunge at her again and I grabbed her and halted her attack. "Let me go you Jerk!"

"Carly I," I tried to asked her what the hell she was talking about.

"Just don't, take your whore and get the hell out." She walked away from me and back into Sam's room. I took a moment to process what Carly had said and turned to my assistant who was collecting herself from the floor.

"What did you do?" I whispered knowing that the Maddie I was so treating with kindness and sympathy may have ruined my life.