Falling For My Playboy Boss
Chapter 101

Collin's

POV

I cannot believe that Maddie stabbed me. I really thought when she heard the sirens getting closer, that she knew that she was going to jail today, and then to prison, that she would throw down the knife. I guess I need to be thankful that she assaulted both myself and the off-duty detective, as with our injuries, it would be attempted murder for both of us, and attempted murder for Cora, too, even though she never got to her, she tried to get to her, and that counts, I hope. Nicolas was telling me that put Maddie over 100 years in charges at this time, so even with good behavior, she would be almost 80 years old, after serving half the sentence. It is finally over, and I was OK with having been stabbed, to get to this point. Adam was right there with me, in the ambulance, and he was telling me that he thinks I would just have a cool scar and an awesome story to tell for years to come. I appreciate him coming with me, even though I know he did it for Cora. I heard their conversation, and he knew that she would worry about me. I will have to give him a bonus for all he did. He was the second person in my line of vision, Cora was the first. I was wondering why Cora called off Thomas at first, but it was better she handled it like she did, now that I realize that so many people were videoing the incident. She really hit Maddie too, she may have even broken her nose. Maddie would hate that because every time she looked at her reflection, she would see her messed up nose, marring her former flawless face. Maddie was always beautiful, but on the inside, she wasn't. It's too bad I found out too late what her face had hidden. Nicolas had already called Jack after Maddie got knocked out, and he had come in and spoken with the officer in charge and told him about our pending federal charges, as well as the charges that Cora, Mateo, and Ella had as well. Nicolas gave him his information and had Livi give hers as well. I know she wanted to leave to go to the hospital with Cora, and I don't blame her, but she was very professional and gave her information to the officers as well as what was going on with her charges of assault and defamation of character. With all the charges against her, she might never get out of prison, and that was what I wanted to happen most of all. I never wanted my family to ever be put in danger again. Thinking of my family, I think of Cora in labor and with only Thomas with her. Plus, we haven't even talked about baby names yet. Has Cora thought about it? Am I going to need surgery? Will I miss the birth of my children? And then I fail Cora again by not being there for her? I try to reach for my phone, but my arms are strapped down. I looked at Adam and asked him to call Ava for me so I could know what was going on. Adam calls the number I gave him, and I hear my sister on speakerphone going "Hello?". "Ava, it's Collin. I am on my way in, but I don't know if I will need surgery or not. Can you ask mom or dad to meet me in the emergency room so they can relay what is all happening so I can replace out where Cora is with the delivery, please? I want to be there, and I am praying that she missed everything important when she stabbed me", I told her. I can hear her speaking to someone in the background, and then my dad is on the phone and asking me "how long before you arrive, Collin?".

The EMT said, "4 minutes", which my dad heard him say and told me that he was headed to the emergency room area right now. I hope this is the last time in my life that I have to age my father with the stuff that happens to me. First going to jail in Paris, and now getting stabbed, with my mother's voice in my head on repeat saying, "If you had just listened to me Collin, you wouldn't have been stabbed in the first place". She was right, but that doesn't mean that I have to like it, at all. No one likes having their mistakes pointed out, and I am no different.

Adam smiled at me and told me, "It is all going to be OK, Collin. Cora is strong, but she has been under a great deal of stress because of this pregnancy, and all that Maddie had done to her. Sometimes, when the mother has a lot of stress on her, the babies come early. She is already in the hospital, and they will take care of her and the babies. Plus, she loves you and I am sure you two will have more babies coming in the next few years, so you will still get to experience everything from start to finish with the next baby. As long as they can do the x-ray and the knife didn't hit anything important, you can still make the delivery. First, babies usually take a while to show up".

"Adam, I want to thank you for all the help you have given us, from when Cora passed out on the plane, through today. I will make it up to you somehow. You have helped us both out many times, and I appreciate you", I told him.

I lied back and thought about Cora. She must be so scared without me there to help her. I am glad Ava is with her, and probably my mom too. I am sure Thomas will stay with her, even though the threat is now gone, as Maddie has been arrested. I am nervous and antsy. I want them to just take the knife out and clean the wound, stitch me up, and let me go to Cora. There are no more obstacles in our way. I need to be with her like I need to breathe. I had a sudden thought. I wish I could reach for my phone, but it is in my pocket on the side I got stabbed, and I cannot use my left arm to get my phone out. Well, no matter, I won't forget it. I plan on asking Cora to marry me and I just thought of the perfect way to do it. Well, if she says yes. I would be totally humiliated if she said "No". I smile about doing it and I will mention it to my mom and Ava the first thing after the babies get here. I will allow Cora to live with her parents as I start to convince her that I am the man for her, and am a completely changed man. This has been the longest streak of being with just one woman since I was in my teens. I know I love her, just my Cora. I just have to convince her of it. I have done so many things wrong with her before. From how I spoke to her, and treated her, yelled at her that I would fire her if she walked in on me again without approval to enter, talked bad about her face, hair, and clothes, to that terrible day when she walked in on me and Maddie. I can still remember her expression, and I didn't have the good sense to stop. I should have, but back then I only cared about myself, and my needs. I was a selfish bastard, but now I worry if Cora is OK, and how are my babies doing? Having to live with Maddie for the last 8 months has really driven it home how very different they are. Cora must truly love me, as no one that I know would have even been with someone after they had been treated like I had treated her. Cora is a loving, giving person that wants only for her friends and family to be happy. She is a giver and will be just the best mom. She was a natural at getting Reed to eat some carrot sticks when all he wanted was a cookie. I cannot wait to see my babies and hold them in my arms.

Damn, I will only have one good arm. We can trade them out. I can hold the one that gets fed first and burp them for her. Wow, the thought of me getting excited to hold one of the babies while the other is nursing makes me happier than I have been in a long time. I have a huge smile on my face when the doors at the back of the ambulance open and they take me out, careful to not let me hit the ground hard, as I still have the knife sticking out of me. I see my dad is already at the ambulance entrance, he can literally talk his way into anywhere, people just love him. My dad is a charmer, especially when he wants to be. I suddenly realized that I wanted to be more like my dad. With my wife by my side and 3 or 4 kids. I haven't asked Cora yet, but as loving as she is, I am sure she will want to have at least one more baby with me. I want the whole package, the house, the wife, the children, the fence, and dog or cat, both if Cora wants them. Whatever I need to do to have her smile her sweet smile at me for the rest of my life, that is what I want. I want all of that, and I only want it with Cora.

Dad is shocked when he sees me with a knife sticking out of me and is immediately concerned. "What happened to you Collin? Ava just said that you had gotten hurt, and before she could say how you got hurt, she started screaming about Cora's water breaking. What in the hell happened?".

"Maddie stabbed me, she wanted to kill me so the babies wouldn't have a father. She hit me too high on my chest and it is lodged in my collarbone. They have to check by x-ray to see what it is around and make sure that they don't nick an artery, or cause more damage to me, so we can't just pull it out. They have to check everything out, and then if it hasn't hit anything important, they can remove it. We need to pray it is not near anything, as I need to be there for Cora and to see my babies being born, dad", I told him. Dad looks shocked and I don't blame him, Maddie was really far more dangerous than anyone gave her credit for. Thank God she wasn't smarter, or she might have killed me today.

They started working on me right off the bat. The EMTs had done a good job securing it so it wouldn't move during transport and hurt me further. The x-ray came back looking good. She had missed all the major areas and hit me in the best possible spot, missing all the muscles, tendons, nerves, and arteries. I saw in the x-ray how close she had come to striking an artery. The emergency room doctor said it was my subclavian artery, and that where she hit me was literally less than half an inch away from me bleeding to death on that runway, as the blade was stuck in the bottom of my collarbone. Dad saw the x-ray, and he heard what they said to me. The look he gave me said it all. I was blessed to still be here, and I wasn't going to waste my time with anything else. They were going to be able to pull it straight out. My doctor wanted me to stay in a room there for evaluation for 24 hours, but I told him that my fiancé was there giving birth to our twins, and he understood why I needed to go and be with her. He congratulated me on the babies and told me to take it easy and come back in a week for them to check and make sure I didn't have any infections, as the knife was stuck in my bone, and it could get infected. The stitches were going to dissolve as my wound healed and I couldn't wait to get to Cora's room, with dad right behind me. I needed to see her and make sure that she was OK. I knew that she needed to see me and make sure that I was OK. I wasn't going to stop until I got to see her.