Sleeping With The CEO-Chapter 350: Good Place

Generally speaking, hospitals were a good place. They symbolized hope. When people were sick. The first place that they thought to go to was the hospital. Once there they got themselves checked out, making sure that it was nothing serious.

Then they walked out with a prescription, or with a treatment plan for whatever ailment they had. For those who had been in accidents. From something as simple as cutting a finger while chopping vegetables. To having fallen off a cliff. Or maybe even being involved in a car crash. The hospital was often their first stop.

The place that a person hoped to make it to, if they were to have any chance of surviving.

Hospitals were also where the majority of people were born. That was how important they were.

But even with all of the good that went on at hospitals. There was also a dark aspect to the life-saving facilities.

Hospitals were also where many people died. Many coming in barely clinging to life. Then losing their strength to keep breathing while there, and coming out as corpses. That was a well-known fact about hospitals. And despite all of the good that Jane knew hospitals did.

She could not seem to get past the last one. The bit about people dying there. That was the information that kept going round and round in her head as she waited.

’Emily could die here,’ Her mind whispered.

’She could simply stop breathing, and you will never see her again,’ Her brain kept saying and Jane did her best to push it aside. Trying to keep it together, not only for her sake, but for Cassandra’s as well. She could tell that her friend was trying really hard not to fall apart. So she in turn was doing the same but it was incredibly difficult.

When they had been out searching, not knowing whether their children were dead or alive.

It had been an incredibly difficult thing for Jane to go through. But now that they had been found, things were not any easier. After the initial jolt of relief that Emily and Derek were still alive. There had come the worry and the stress, that they might not be that way for long. Especially when they had learned that their children had also been shot. That had added a new complication to the whole thing.

Not only did they now have to worry about Emily and Derek suffering because they had been in the water for so long. But they also had to think about the possible complications that could come from their bullet wounds. They had not been briefed on the extent of the damage. So now all that they could do was wait.

There was nothing to take their minds off the situation.

And the longer they stayed without an update, the harder it became to just sit around.

Searching had been hard enough, but Jane could not stand the waiting. She hoped that it would be over soon. But at the same time, she did not want the news to come too quickly. Because if that happened. Then most likely it would not be good news. It would be a doctor coming to say something that began with ’ We did everything that we could, but...’ Jane did not want any part of a sentence that began like that.

Tired of staring at the hospital walls, and coming up with worst case scenarios, Jane stood and walked around for a bit. Going from one end of the room to the other.

Thanks to Cassie’s status, the two of them were in a private waiting room, and Jane was thankful for that. She had no idea, how she would have taken being around other people who were also in different states of panic and worry. But the fact that it was just them in the room was also not helping matters.

There was nothing else to focus on but each other. And every time that Jane looked over at Cassandra, all that she saw was her own pain reflected in the woman’s eyes. It was difficult to bear.

Maybe it would have been better if there were other people for her to turn her attention on, but Jane highly doubted that. The stress from just the two of them was already threatening to overwhelm her. Having to contend with other people’s anxieties would have made the situation even worse for her.

And so after walking in a circle around the room, Jane went to sit back down again. Knowing very well that in a few minutes, she would get antsy again and be on her feet. Once more walking the same route.

She was no stranger to hospitals. When her Peter had been sick, Jane had gotten well acquainted with them.

She should have been used to them by now.

But there was really no getting used to hospitals. There was something about the sterile coolness of them, that just made it impossible to do that. Now Jane was even having a problem with doors.

Doors staying closed were a cause for concern, and doors opening up were also a cause for concern.

When the door remained closed. It meant that there was no news to report. And while no news was good news, that put Jane further on edge.

What if no one was coming to say anything because her Emily was bleeding out on the table, and everyone was rushing about trying to save her? What if the door was closed because they were all staring at her daughter’s body. Trying to figure out who was going to have to be the one to tell Jane the news.

Those were not the thoughts that Jane should have been having. She should have been trying her best to stay positive. But the negativity just kept coming. And the longer no one came to tell them anything. The more horrible the scenarios in Jane’s head became.

When the door finally did open, her head snapped up so fast that she nearly fell off her seat. Only Cassie’s steadying hand keeping her from ending up on the floor. But when she saw who it was, Jane wished that she really had fallen.

That way she would not have had to see the smug face of none other than Sebastian Haven.

As he walked into the room. His eyes once again sweeping over Jane’s form, as though she were a piece of meat.

"What are you doing here?" Jane and Cassandra hissed in unison. Both of them getting to their feet, and staring the man down.

When Derek and Emily had been missing. He had been quick to start speaking of them in the past tense. Yet he had no shame, showing up at the hospital.

"My nephew is still alive and kicking, instead of having kicked the bucket. Why wouldn’t I be here?" He said with a shrug. Merely smiling as the very guards who had let him pass entered the room at the sound of raised voices.

"Guards, Cassandra, really? Isn’t the creature you let your son run around with enough of a guard dog to-" Jane’s control over herself snapped, and before, she knew what she was doing.

She’d moved forward and slapped the man across the face hard.

"What on earth?!" Sebastian Haven yelled, raising his own hand. But before he could do anything, he was being held back by the security that had let themselves in.

"Sebastian, I did not think to exclude you from the list of visitors, because I did not think you would come. Clearly I made a mistake. Get out! If you come back, I’ll have you thrown off the roof," Cassandra said coolly, and Jane retreated a few steps to stand beside her friend. Her hands balled into fists. A part of her wished that Sebastian had really managed to swing at her. She felt like doing some serious damage.

But he just stood there, held in place by the guards, his eyes looking as though they were ready to combust. It was a pitythat her slap had been a weak one. She would have liked to leave a mark on that smug face.

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