Free Love In A Nick Of Time by Stephanie Jean Smith Page B

The line was quiet and Allen was afraid that Debra had hung up. “Debra are you there?”
     
    “Yes Allen. Jenna, Samantha’s partner called, she’s at University Hospital. I don’t know what else to tell you, Jenna thought that Kevin’s needs to hurry if he wants to say goodbye. Right now Samantha’s fighting for her life.”
     
    Allen felt and emptiness in the pit of his stomach. Samantha had to make it; she was going to be his wife and the mother of his children. Before he could respond to her declaration Mary was back in the conference room. “Debra are you at home right now or are you still at work?”
     
    “I just got home.”
     
    “Good my driver will be there in twenty minutes or less I need you to be ready to go.” Allen handed Kevin back his phone as he sat there staring off into space. Allen turned his attention back to Mary.
     
    Mary was out of breath from running. “Sir, I have your pilot on line one and your driver is waiting for instructions.”
     
    “Mary I need you to provide Kevin’s address to Pete and have him pick up Debra and bring her to my plane. Tell Dan, I won’t be flying as planned and I’m bringing two passengers with me. We’re also going to need a car to pick us up from the airport in Omaha. Tell the driver we’re headed for University Hospital.”
     
    “I’ll take care of everything, don’t worry, I’m sure Miss Graham will pull through.” She patted Allen on the back and left the conference room to take care of the arrangements.
     
    “Kevin we have to leave for the airport, now.” Allen didn’t mean to snap at Kevin, but he was rapidly losing his patience.”
     
    Kevin got to his feet and followed Allen to the elevators. “I’m sorry Allen. I lost it for a minute.”
     
    By the time they made it to the lobby, Ted one of the company’s security guards was waiting for them. “Mr. Archer your secretary called, we have a car waiting to take you to the airport.” He followed them out of the building and before you know it they were on their way.
     
    Allen was losing his mind as well. He gave no thought as to how he and Kevin were going to get to the airport. Mary seemed to have things under control. Someone had to have their shit together because if he lost Samantha his life wouldn’t be worth a damn.
     
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Chapter 8
    Three hours and thirty minutes later Allen, Kevin, and Debra entered University Hospital through the Emergency entrance. Allen approached the sign-in desk to ask for information. “Excuse me miss, my fiancée Samantha Graham is here and I need some information on her status.”
     
    The nurse checked the system before replying. “Sir the only information I have is that she’s out of surgery and the surgeon will be down momentarily.”
     
    “Thank you.” Allen turned around to the stunned expressions on Kevin and Debra’s faces. “Samantha and I are getting married, deal with it.”
     
    Kevin and Debra gave each other puzzled glances, but they had more important issues on their minds than Allen’s fabrication. They sat down close to the desk and waited for the surgeon to come. Allen didn’t want to sit down he began walking around the waiting room.
     
    “Are you Allen?”
     
    Allen turned around, in front of him stood two women one was pint size woman with fiery eyes and red hair. The other woman was several inches taller with shoulder length platinum blonde hair and she had bluest eyes he’d ever seen. The shorter woman’s firsts were balled up at her sides. He expected her to hit him at any minute, “yes I’m Allen Archer.”
     
    “It’s nice to finally meet you, we’re Samantha’s friends. I’m Jenna Johnson, Samantha’s business partner. Samantha has told me so much about you. I’m just sorry we had to meet under these circumstances. I’m glad you were able to get here so quickly. Samantha told me you were arriving to night. Jenna started crying and Michael stood beside her to comfort her.
     
    “Nice to