Choices (A Woman's Life) by Ferrarella Marie

Author:Ferrarella, Marie [Ferrarella, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2014-05-12T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Reid knew he would be sweating it out before the evening was over, but he had thought it would be because he was wrestling with difficult questions on his final exam, not sitting in the backseat of the taxicab he drove, trying to assist a pregnant woman deliver her first child.

Who would ever believe this? He could just envision the look on his professor’s face as he told him he missed his exam because he was helping a lady give birth in an alley. Talk about truth being stranger than fiction.

He looked at her face and saw the fear. “Lady,” he said softly. Her eyes darted toward his face, bewilderment and apprehension reflected in them. He sought for a way to reassure her. His fingers were still tangled up with hers and going numb fast. The intensity of her grip was constricting the flow of blood. “It’s going to be all right. I promise.”

“Easy for you to SAY.”

The words were torn from her by the jolt of intense pain, which, once there, refused to weaken, she was certain that she was going to die in its grasp. Death was actually becoming a preferable alternative to what she was going through. There didn’t seem to be an end to this agony, just wave after wave of excruciating pain. She couldn’t cling to respites, gathering her strength for the next onslaught. There weren’t any respites. The pain no longer came and went. Now it decreased only slightly and then intensified with a vengeance. She wasn’t going to make it.

She had an incredibly strong hold for someone who looked as thin-boned and delicate as she did, Reid thought. He began to wonder if he’d ever be able to flex his hand again. “What’s your name?”

Her lids felt heavy as she struggled to keep them up. “Why?”

“Because we’re going to be getting very close here in a few minutes and I can’t keep calling you ‘lady.’”

Reid eyed the hem of her dress, hesitant to raise it even though he knew he had to. This wasn’t exactly how he had pictured getting to know her when he had sat in his beach chair five months ago, watching her stare off into the ocean. Obviously staring wasn’t the only thing the woman had done.

“Shanna,” she bit off, tears rising of themselves to her eyes. Tears created by pain. She started to give him her last name, then stopped. Which one? Brady? Calhoun? The divorce wasn’t final yet. “Just Shanna.”

She didn’t trust him, he thought. He couldn’t think of a single reason why she should, except that she really didn’t have much of a choice. If the situation had been reversed, he wouldn’t have been happy about it either. It was a hell of a position to find yourself in. It was probably frightening enough just to give birth for the first time without having to do it in an alley, with no hospital or doctor, just a total stranger for help. She had to be terrified.

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