I didn't realize how hard I was holding on to her. "Please be gentle," a nurse said from behind me. Up." I slid my hand to the side of her neck. Sorry." I touched the side of her cold face. Baby, please forgive me." I grabbed her hand again and I stepped forward and knelt by Penny's hospital bed. Was I doing? Why would I believe the word of some incompetent lawyer? And aĭoctor that probably couldn't even distinguish my wife from any other patient? "Why, Penny? Why was this life not enough? Why wasn't IĮnough?" I realized I was shouting and no one could hear me. I backed up, bumping into one of the machines. You want to leave me? Did you hate our life that much?" I walked over and put my hand on top of hers. I continued to run until I saw the room marked 502. "Room 502," I said to a nurse standing at a desk. I just needed her heart to still be beating.Īs soon as the elevator doors opened, I ran down the hall. The dinging of the doors closing blocked out I tried to ignore him and hit the button again. I slammed my fist against the button with an up arrow. "When is she going to wake up?" I had already She can only have one visitor at a time." "We just moved her to room 502 of the ICU. "I need to see my wife," I said again, cutting him "No." I shrugged his hand off my shoulder. "Have you noticed any signs of depression or." Suicide," he added, when I had no reaction. "Nine times out of ten this is an intentional thing." My wife? Why aren't the police here? Why aren't you telling them this?" "Poison? What are you talking about? Did someone poison We're not sure how long it's been in her system, or what the extent of theĭamage is. "There were high levels of poison in her blood. Hunter," he said as he came to a stop, out of earshot of my family. "There is no easy way to put this, so I'll be frank with "Did some of her organs shut down? Is she breathing on her "What does that mean exactly?" I asked as Iįollowed him. Hunter, we need to have a word in private." He "We had no choice but to put her on life support." He looked over my shoulder at the whole waiting room coming He was the complete opposite of my lawyer.Ĭomposed. "Is my wife okay?" The desperation in my toneĭidn't even make him flinch. "Someone take her," I snapped as I walked over to him. I put Scarlett down, even though she started to cry. Like it was his own life hanging in the balance. I didn't recognize had just walked through the swinging doors. Someone clearing their throat made me turn my head. It was like she could sense I didn't want He just gave me a nod,Ĭlapped me on the back, and sat back down next to his wife. Or to Penny's dad,īut I didn't have to say a word. Taylor's face was pinched, like she had been crying and I lifted her into my arms without really looking at her. "Daddy!" Scarlett yelled as she scrambled out of I nodded and walked away from the window without looking back "And that they had to do an emergency C-section. I nodded and turned away from the window. They also mentioned that skin to skinĬontact is good for preemies, if you want to hold him." He hasĪnemia and they've already done one blood transfusion. "That he has to stay in the NICU for awhile. "What did they say when they told you about the There were tubes attached to himĮverywhere. "There," my dad said and pointed to a baby in theĬorner. Tiny babies hooked up to tubes and wires. She had been healthy, born a week after her due date. It wasn't like where Scarlett hadīeen kept. Maternity ward full of crying babies, until we stopped in front of a window. Waiting room full of people I couldn't face. We used a different entrance to the hospital to avoid the
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