Kanner Lake - 03 - Crimson Eve by Brandilyn Collins

Author:Brandilyn Collins [Collins, Brandilyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Suspense, fiction, Christian, Religious, Alternative History
ISBN: 9780310252252
Published: 2007-01-01T13:00:00+00:00

r 23, 1991 Thursday, October 24, 1991 Friday, October 25, 1991 Saturday, October FORTY-SIX

I’ve been told my due date is April 19. Two weeks after my seventeenth birthday. Dr. Hughes calculated the date based on the day I told him I got pregnant.

April 19. That’s it, girl, you’d better make it work.

Dr. Hughes is okay. He’s nice and sort of quiet. Very confident.

Makes me feel like he knows what he’s doing, and I can tell he loves his job. Babies have been his life for a lot of years now. Still, I hate being examined. It’s terrible to have to take off all your clothes and spread your legs on a table for some old man you don’t even know — even if he is a doctor. Maybe it’s stupid, ’cause I know he’s done this forever and I suppose he’s seen everything a billion times, but I’m not some other patient, I’m me. No matter how nice he is to me, when the whole thing’s over I feel dirty. I’m just glad the nurse is in there with me.

Her name is Lisa, and she’s wonderful. Heaven knows I need nice people in my life right now. She told me I can call her Lisa, even though she’s older than my mother. Maybe she’s this way with all the patients, but she seems to give extra care to me. Takes time to talk to me and asks how I’m doing — not physically, like Dr.

Hughes does, but emotionally. She knows it’s hard for me. I’ve told her I have all sorts of emotions about this whole thing. I told her all about Scott and how he agreed to the adoption because he couldn’t stand the thought of abortion. And, of course, Lisa and Dr.

Hughes both know the baby’s going to Bryson. (I try not to think of Mrs. My-Husband. The baby’s going to Bryson.) Although nobody else knows about the adoption, they’re not allowed to tell anyone.

Lisa says I’m very brave to do this. She knows pregnancy is hard.

But she says the time will pass (sometimes I wonder), and then I’ll have a clear conscience, and the Hanleys will be happy with their baby.

If only she knew.

Sometimes I so want to tell her everything. Sometimes I think she’s the only person I could tell, because she’s a nurse and she’s not supposed to talk about patients. But every time the story jumps on my tongue, I force it back. Problem is, the secret doesn’t involve just me. It involves Bryson. And I promised him I’d never tell anyone.

Dr. Hughes says the baby looks very healthy. And a good size.

Mom is talking to me again. In grunts. What else can she do, when she got herself in the same fix at my age. At least I’m giving the baby up for adoption. At least my baby will be raised by a loving mother.

God, please let Mrs. My-Husband be loving, even if I hate her.

The court loves her, that’s for sure. Mrs.

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