A Very Opal Halloween by Belinda White

Author:Belinda White [White, Belinda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Halloween short story, paranormal cozy mystery, witch cozy, witch myster
Publisher: Belinda White
Published: 2019-10-13T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4

IT TOOK SOME DOING, but we finally convinced Nancy to stay behind. The crowning point in our argument was that a hospital room was no place for a five-year-old. And if Nancy went, Mason would demand to go too. Truth was that a hospital room wasn’t any place for an eleven-year-old, either, but at least that wasn’t an argument we had to have.

We got lucky in that Sheriff Taylor had brought his squad car to the party in hopes of stopping any mischief before it happened. It had been a good thought, but we’d have to take a chance on the mischief. We needed that siren. Plus, a squad car running lights can go a heck of a lot faster than regular cars. And with zero risk of being pulled over. Win-win, that.

He made it to the hospital in Oak Hill in record time. I was kind of figuring he took some risks he wouldn’t normally have taken for the pure and simple reason that he didn’t want to have to personally deliver the baby. Not that I blamed him. I’d have probably gone even faster.

A midwife I ain’t.

At the risk of sounding extremely self-centered, I had been planning on seeing her signed in and wheeled away, and then heading back to the farmhouse. After all, I’d only known the girl for a matter of days and a delivery room is a very private affair.

She, however, had other wishes.

“Will you stay with me?”

One look in her terrified eyes and I couldn’t very well say no, now could I? “I’m not family. They might not let me.”

The nurse overheard me. “If she wants you in there, you can be in there. It’s as simple as that.”

I looked over at the sheriff. “Looks like I’m staying then. You going on back?”

He shook his head. “I’ll hang around for a bit. Opie sent me a text saying that they recruited Tommy Hill and Mabel Morgan to help out with the haunted trail, so they should be covered there.”

I blew out a breath. That part had been worrying me. Then I turned to Kimberly. “Okay then, you’ve got yourself a coach. Let’s do this thing.”

She gave me a scared smile. “Do I have a choice?”

“Well, she got in there somehow, and she’s gotta get out somehow, so I guess the answer to that is nope. No choice.”

“Yeah, that’s what I thought too.” Then her voice lowered. “Thank you for staying. I’m really scared to do this alone. Last time, I had Mom with me, and it helped.”

That stumped me. If her mom was still around then why had she been living like she had? “You want me to call her for you?”

She shook her head as the nurse started wheeling her down the hall. “She kind of wrote me off when she found out who the father of this one was. Like it was my fault, and I seduced him or something.”

I’d kind of been wondering about that. I’d had Amie do a little research and digging trying to figure out who the father was.

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