10.2 Alexander

"Oh my god, Alex, I'm so sorry." Katerina gasped but I shook my head.

"It's not your fault, love, the doctors tried everything they could to save the baby but it was no use. Soledad blamed herself for the loss but I kept telling her that it was not her fault either. That it just wasn't meant to happen to us at the moment but that we would try again" I said ignoring the fact that I had just given her a pet name and Katerina gazed at me with sad eyes and I hated that look, "As much as I had wanted to keep assuring her that everything work is okay, things didn't. We found out that the reason behind her losing the baby was due to her having cancer."

Katerina gasped at the new information and squeezed my hand tighter and I gave her a thankful smile as I blinked my eyes to clear them from the tears that were building, "The doctors had done a test to figure out why the baby that had been growing at a healthy rate had suddenly been lost and that's when they saw the abnormal tissue in her ovaries."

"Oh god" she whispered as tears filled her own eyes at the news, "god, Alex."

"She underwent chemo and radiation the moment we learned of the news" I chocked a sob as I remembered seeing Soledad, a woman so full of life reduced to skin and bone as she lay in the hospital bed fighting for her life but we all knew that the cancer was far too advanced for any chance of her making it though. I felt soft hands cup my face as Katerina gently wiped the tears away that I didn't even know were rolling down my face.

"You listen to me Alexander Storm," Soledad had weakly said as I sat by her bedside the night she passed away, "I want you to be happy and I know that the girl back home is your happiness. So I want you to go back and tell her that you love her. Tell her everything you've told me when we met. Promise me that you will go home and tell her and that you will be happy."

I swallowed the lump that had formed in my throat as I held her fragile hand in mine as tears rolled down my face and nodded my head promising her that I would do as she said and later that night after we talked and laughed I gave her one last kiss as she closed her eyes for the last time.

"Alex, I." Katrina began to say but I shook my head.

"Don't. Katerina. You had no way of knowing what had happened before I came back. I knew that coming back there would've been a chance that you had moved on and you did. But that doesn't mean it didn't hurt like hell when I saw you and Jericho together" I said as I pulled away from her and stood up leaving her sitting at the table her eyes on me, "I told Soledad about you when we got married and became friends. She always had the right words to say and god I wish she was still alive so she could help me figure this whole thing out."

"Alex." Katrina said as she stood up and walked towards me stopping me from turning away from her and I swallowed the knot in my throat as our eyes clashed, "Why didn't you call me when you left? Why didn't you come looking for me the second you got back?"

"I did but every time I was ignored," I said and she furrowed her brows in confusion but before I could elaborate a knock on the door made me look up to see David poking his head in.

"Am I interrupting?" He asked and I shook my head while Katrina stayed silent, "Well if you're done talking we can head over to the meeting room across the hall to meet with the clients."

"We'll be there in a second, David." Katerina said and her brother nodded before closing the door and leaving us alone again, "We're not done talking Alex. So after the meeting is over we're finishing this conversation."

I nodded because there were a lot more things to be said between us if there was any chance of us getting together. With a final look my way, Katerina walked out of the meeting room and across the hall towards the meeting room where David and our clients were waiting and I sighed before following after her. This meeting was going to be long.