Loving the CEO novel Chapter 14

Emily

Arriving at the hospital, I bid the receptionist good morning before I continued my way to the elevator to go up to my mother's room. Walking in, I saw that she was watching television and was laughing at something that the person said.

"Mom I can see that you're enjoying yourself," I said while chuckling.

Taking her eye off the television, she looked at me and smiled. "I don't want to talk about me, I want to talk about you. What happened between you and Mr. handsome last night?" She probed as she sat up in bed.

"It was great. We talked and shared things from our past while we walked to the park that was a block away," I spoke as I took a seat in the chair that was beside her bed.

"Did you tell him about what happened in high school?"

"No mom, I can never speak of what happened!" I almost shouted.

"I'm sorry sweetheart I didn't mean to upset you. It's just that I wanted you to tell him before you guys went any further. Who knows what this 'thing' you guys got going on can blossom into."

"No mom is the one who is sorry, I shouldn't have replied in that tone of voice and I don't think this 'thing' that Adam and I have going on will blossom any further, he is just a friend.

Frowning, she looked at me like I was crazy before she replaced the smile with a frown. Beckoning me over, she spoke, "let's watch Passions together."

"Mom, didn't that show cancel like a couple of years ago, how did you find it?"

"Well, I was scrolling through and saw that they were bringing back old soap operas." Stretching over to where she was, I placed my head on her lap and we watched the soap opera together. I must say I was happy to be watching it again, it had been years since I last saw it and watching it again allowed me to reminisce about the good old time when I used to watch it in the living room with my mom, like now but instead of being in the living room, I was in her hospital room.

When we would watch it, my dad would be in the room, grumbling about us watching soap operas and not paying him any attention. We would laugh at him and when it's over we would sit in the kitchen and talk while mom made dinner. Waking up to the sound of the room door opening, I opened my eyes wide to see that Adam was coming through the door with a bouquet. Looking over at my mom, I saw that she had fallen asleep.