Christmas Collection 2018 by Regnery Katy

Author:Regnery, Katy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Katharine Gilliam Regnery
Published: 2018-11-16T16:00:00+00:00

EPILOGUE

Six months later

Jane’s pager buzzed for the second time, but she kept her attention focused on her patient as a nurse entered the room.

“Hey, Sam, do you think you can show Nurse Clark what you were just showing me?”

She grinned at the six-year-old sitting on the bed, watching as he showed the nurse how he was now able to extend and bend the broken arm that Jane had set six weeks ago.

“Sam,” exclaimed Misti, one of Jane’s favorite pediatric nurses, “you’re doing so great!”

Jane unclipped the pager from her belt loop and took a quick look at the message, and her heartbeat sped up:

Transition over. Hurry.

She gasped softly, darting her eyes to Misti. “Misti, is there any way you could handle Sam’s discharge papers?”

“Sure thing, Doc.”

“You good, Sam?” asked Jane.

“All better!” cried Sam, giving Jane a toothy grin. “Thanks, Doctor Story.”

“Thank you for healing so fast!”

She winked at her young patient, made prayer-hands thank-you to Misti for finishing up Sam’s discharge papers, then ran out of the room.

Luckily, the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, where Alice was laboring, was right next door to CHOP, so Jane could be there in about ten minutes if she hurried.

As Jane made her way out of the building to South Thirty-Fourth Street, her pager buzzed in the pocket of her lab coat, and she fished it out.

Two words—She’s crowning—made Jane speed walkthrough the hospital’s main entrance, weave around the reception area to the Ravdin elevators, and press the up button three or four times.

“Janie!”

She turned around to see her sister Margaret and brother-in-law Cameron rushing toward the elevator, their arms laden with flowers and balloons.

“Where are my nephews?” Jane asked, kissing her sister’s cheek.

“We left them with the nanny.” Margaret grinned. “Trying to change your luck, huh?”

It was a standing joke among the Story sisters that regardless of the fact that Jane worked closest to the hospital where Margaret and Priscilla had given birth to their four children, Jane, the family’s own pediatrician, had missed the main event every time, arriving seconds after the babies had already been delivered.

“Gonna be close, Janie,” said Cameron with a grin.

“I’m not missing it this time!” she said, frowning at her sister’s husband. “Damn it! I’m taking the stairs!”

She ran back to the main entrance and hoofed it up the flight of stairs, beelining for Labor and Delivery. Her CHOP identification card opened the double doors, and she stopped at the nurses’ station.

“Doctor Story!”

“Hey, Abby. You know where my sister is? Alice Story?”

“DR3.”

“Got it,” said Jane, power-walking down the hallway to Delivery Room 3.

Betsy, who was standing in the hallway outside of Alice’s room, came into focus as Jane rounded the corner. Beside Betsy was her fiancé, Merit, and on her other side, Priscilla’s husband, Shane.

“Hurry, Janie!” urged Elizabeth.

“How did you beat me here from the office?”

“Merit was on the text chain. As soon as he got the first message, he came and got me.”

“Dragged her from her desk,” said Merit, kissing the top of Elizabeth’s head.

Jane winked at her soon-to-be brother-in-law.

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