All He Wants for Christmas by Elle Wright

Author:Elle Wright
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2016-12-06T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Sydney woke up with a start. Oh shit, my back. She stretched, cringing at the pain that shot down her spine. She’d spent a restless night in one of the quiet rooms after Kent forced her to get some sleep. He was lying next to her on an adjacent sofa snoring lightly, one arm covering his face. They’d spent a few hours reminiscing about good times with all of them before they couldn’t keep their eyes open any longer.

As hopeless as she’d felt the night before, the morning brought renewed hope. The nurse had informed them earlier that Morgan was breathing on his own, and the doctor felt they could remove the vent tube soon. She couldn’t put a finger on it, but she knew that Morgan would open his eyes today. It wasn’t the end. He would pull through. When she’d finally torn herself away from him last night, the color had started to come back into his face and he didn’t look so pale against the stark-white sheets.

She stood, bent low to touch her toes. Covering a yawn, she folded up the hard hospital blanket they’d given her and peeked at her phone—eight-thirty. Scrolling to her mother’s phone number, she put the phone to her ear and waited.

“Hello?” her mother answered, her voice groggy.

“Mom,” Syd said, still unable to believe that her mother even had Brynn. Red and Cali had offered to pick up her daughter on their way home, but when they’d called Mom, she’d simply told them to go home and rest. Then had promptly hung up on Red.

“Sydney?” her mother called. “Is everything all right?”

This nice, concerned version of Paula Williams was jarring, and it took Sydney seconds to collect herself before she replied, “Everything is fine. How is Brynn?”

Her daughter was almost a year old and had yet to spend any meaningful time with her grandmother. Actually, Syd had never even considered an overnight visit. It wasn’t like Brynn didn’t know Paula. It was quite the opposite. Red had taken it upon himself to make sure he took his niece over to see Mama Paula every chance he got. Which was good because if it had been left up to Syd, they wouldn’t know each other at all.

“Oh, she’s such a breath of fresh air, that girl,” her mother said. Syd could hear the creak of the bed, signaling Paula was moving around. She imagined her mother shuffling to the kitchen to make her necessary cup of coffee with three creams and three sugars. Syd remembered being so excited the first time her mother had let her make coffee. That excitement was short lived when she’d done something to set her mother off before she could even say, “Thank you for the cup of joe.”

“Is she asleep?” Syd asked.

“Yes, she went straight to sleep when I laid her down. They didn’t make these travel bassinets when you and Jared were babies. It would have certainly come in handy.”

When Cali had dropped Brynn and Corrine off, she’d stopped by Syd’s house on her way and picked up a few things for Brynn.

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