Someone Like you by stephanie lyon (novels to read txt) 📕

I smile as my moms words once again hit me. I look at Dakotah and he smiles back at me. our relationship has definitely been a roller coaster, but the love I have for him made it worth all the hurt in the end.

He brushes the hair behind my ear and just stares there and smiles at me.

“do you think my mom knew we were meant to be together,” I ask remembering her last words.

She was laying in bed the sun shining through the window. George strait playing all my exes, grandma grandpa, Dakotah, willy, and I were all around her knowng it wouldn’t be long.

She looked up at dokatah then me before telling us something I’ll never forget.

Take care of my baby, and my baby’s babies.

Then she was gone.

I never really thought about it or analyzed it until right now, there was so much pain I just ignored what she said.

“When I first met you, you reached out to shake my hand. When I got to know you you reached out to understand my mind. When I liked you, you reached out and touched my heart When I loved you, you reached out and touched my soul When I thought I had nothing I had everything when I had you If were meant to be together let it be. If fate wants us to be forever ~ Lets wait and see.” He answers. I laugh, that definitely sounded like something my mom would say.

“she always told me to fall in love with a certain kind of guy, I was surprised as hell that the person she described my who life turned out to be exactly you. It’s weird but I think she knew you and I were meant to be together”

“your mom was smart, I don’t doubt it Faith”

“do you believe in soulmates Kotah?”

“I found you, didn’t i?”

“I wonder if that’s why my mom hired you as the farm hand, because she knew we were meant to be togthether in a strange way.”

“life’s strange Faith, but like your mom always said-“

“everything happens for a reason?” I interrupt.

“exactly” he says smiling back.

“Damnit guys, thanks a lot. have I ever told you you guys are the loudest freaking talkers I have ever met. I’m trying to sleep, but I guess I’m not going to be able to,” Willy starts ranting getting up and stomping off to the bathroom. The door slams .

“wow” I mouth to Dakotah. He laughs and shakes his head before leaning down to kiss me. the second his lips tuch mine I feel the fireworks.

I don’t know how, but she was right.

Dakotah was my soulmate.

We’ll be there within the next hour.

I text Chris, then set my phone down and lay my head on Dakotahs shoulders. When we pulled over to the motel I didn’t realize how close we were to Bentley. I thought It was still a good six hour drive, but we were just in the next town over.

My heart sinks as I think about Bentley laying in the hospital bed with neither his mom or dad there with him.  Dakotah senses something worng and puts his arm around my shoulders.

“you okay” he asks rubbing my arm with his hand. I shrug my shoulders. Honestly, I didn’t know the answer to that.  Yeah I have Dakotah back, but my son was laying in a hospital bed really sick, and I wasn’t there for him.

“I’m a horrible mom” I blurt.

“no you’re not, you want to know how I know that” Dakotah says making me look at him.

“how?”

“because you feel bad about it, if you didn’t love him you wouldn’t be beating yourself up over it, and what about when you first got pregnant you had so many choices abortion adoption and you choose to keep him even though you knew you’d lose everything else. If that’s not a good mom then I don’t know what is.”

“but when I left I was taking his dad away from him!” I shriek.

“are you pregnant, cause you’ve been awfully moody lately” Willy snaps from the front seat. I glare at him.

“no I haven’t done anything for  over a year and a half Willy so shut up.”

“willy stop being a dick”

“well she is, she’s a bitch one minute, then she’s depressed then she’s all happy and lovey dovey.”

“willy shut up dude I’m serious” Dakotah orders. His voice was cold. It could scare the shit out of anyone. Willy mumbles something but I can’t hear it, Dakotah ignores it and puts his hand on the back of my head. Then he pulls me forward and kisses the top of my head.

“you’re an amazing mom and girlfriend” he whisphers in my ear making a weight lift of my shoulders. I hold up my left hand and point to the ring.

“fiancé actually” I smirk.

He laughs and rolls his eyes.

“point remains the same Faith” he says. I smile and lean against him. These last couple days have made me love Dakotah more then I ever knew I could. I thought I loved him with everything I had already but these last couple days, he’s been my support, my rock and it’s made my heart love him even more then I did before. The intensity of the feeling I had were twice as great now. Maybe mom was right. Everything happens for a reason.

My phone rings, this time it’s not a text. Someone was calling me I look down and see chris’ picture. My heart sink.

“hello” I say my voice cracking.

“he’s gone fay” my brother cries from the other side of the phone. My whole body goes numb. “he’s in a coma, they don’t think he’s going to make it, they’re doing everything they can to bring him back, but his heart” my brither cries stopping to catch his breath. “I’m sorry Fay, I’m so sorry”

Dakotah grabs the phone from me.

“hey whats wrong… were almost there… okay” he says looking over at me I can barely make out his features through my blurry vision. “I’ll tell her” he says before hanging up. His voice cracks.

“what” I croak.

“he’s in a coma, there’s still a chance he can pull through faith” he says his voice cracking even more. I knew by the way he was talking, he didn’t think Bentley was going to pull through. I throw my hands up to my face and let myself fall apart. Dakotah pulls me to his chest and rubs my back.  the way his chest rose and fell unsteadly I could tell he was crying to.

I gripped onto him like my life depended on it and I decided to do something I haven’t done sense my mom died, something I gave up on.

I prayed.

I was still praying when we got to the hospital.

“faith come on, were here” Dakotah syas shaking me. I open my eyes my vision still blurry. He picks me up and pulls me out of the truck then sets me down. I grab his hand holding onto what felt like my last pillar of support left. He led me, the whole time I was to busy crying. The halls seemed endless as we tried to navigate through the hospital.

“Faith!” I hear my brother yell.

I look up and see him sticking his head out the window. When he see’s me his face turns to anger, that’s when I realize he was looking at my arm. His body tensed up.

“what happened faith” he asks walking towards me. “did this bastard hurt you” he continues this time glaring at Dakotah I squeeze dakotahs hand as I feel him tense up.

“no I did it myself” I snapped. “now where’s our son chris”

He gives daggers to Dakotah before turning around. I follow in his foot steps. I’m stopped just before we go inside I turn and looked at Dakotah, he looked terrified like death just washed over him. I put my hand on his cheek and try and give him a reassuring smile.

“I love you” he whisphers closing his eyes. I get butterflies just knowing I have the affect I do on him.

“I love you too Kotah, now come meet your son” I say turning around and walking into the room. I could tell byhis heavy footsteps he was scared, and boy did I know the feeling. I was scared for nine months that I carried him, and even more scared for nine months after he was born. My biggest fear was I wouldn’t be a good mother.

As we walk in the room we can hear the machines going my body stiffened as I walked, no mother wants to see their child in the hospital on life support. I squeezed kotahs hand and opened my eyes.

Bentley was laying there with a tube coming out of his mouth, his eyes shut and he wasn’t moving. My heart sunk as I felt my eyes burn. I let go of Dakotah hand and walk to Bentley’s side. I look at his little body, and then run my hands through his hair.

“I’m so sorry I let you down as a mom, please Bentley fight through it momma’s here, she knows you can” I mumble grabbing his tiny little hands.  When I feel a hand on the small of my back I turn to see kotah. With a pain stricken face. I move aside and let him go by Bentley.

He mumbles something but I tune myself out I didn’t want to hear him say whatever it was, I didn’t want to hear him say goodbye. I didn’t want to believe he was here.

A nurse walks in with her clipboard. She was petite with long blonde hair, she reminded me of a younger version of Cameron Diaz. She sees me and smiles.

“You must be Bentley’s mom” she says smiling. I nod.

“This is my fiancé and Bentley’s dad” I say motioning towards Dakotah. He looks back and I notice his eyes were red and classy. He walks over to where the nurse and I were talking and grabs my hand.

“It’s a pleasure to meet you guys, your son’s a fighter, none of the doctors here believed he’d make it through the first night, but he has”

“I’m sorry but what’s wrong with him” I interrupt.

“He has what’s known as respiratory syncytial virus. For babies less than 1 year old, RSV is the most common cause of pneumonia and bronchiolitis, an inflammation of the small air passages in the lungs. Wheezing is a telltale symptom of these conditions, which sometimes have to be treated in the hospital. Only about 25% to 40% of young children with their first RSV infection will have any noticeable wheezing, however. Even fewer, 2% or less, are hospitalized. “

As she explains my heart sinks, what did this mean? Does he have any chances of surviving this?

“however just looking at his EKG it does look like he’s improving, but he’s not out of the woods yet the chances of him making it are less than ten percent” she says giving me a sympathetic look.

I fall to my knees and start sobbing, I feel Kotah embrace me, but I couldn’t stop the sobbing. “It’s my fault” I cry.

“No