Marriage of Inconvenience by Penny Reid

Author:Penny Reid [Reid, Penny]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Cipher-Naught
Published: 2018-03-06T08:00:00+00:00

Part II

What Happens in Boston, Becomes Headlines All Around the World

Chapter Seventeen

Medical Power of Attorney: “A legal instrument that allows you to select the person that you want to make healthcare decisions for you if and when you become unable to make them for yourself.”

—Wex Legal Dictionary

**Kat**

I messaged my professors and informed them my father was in the hospital and I didn’t know when or if I’d be returning to class. I also promised to keep them in the loop as much as possible. Then I sent an email to my boss and Ms. Opal communicating a similar message.

I then sent a text to Steven, letting him know I’d be out of town. Dan messaged Quinn and asked Janie to spread the word.

I didn’t feel like talking during the flight. Mostly, this was because I didn’t know what I was feeling apart from angry with Eugene and stunned by the news about my father.

Dan, apparently sensing this, didn’t try to speak to me. But he did hold me the entire time we were in the air. He held my hand as we walked through Logan Airport, in the car on the drive to the hospital, and once we arrived.

He held my hand as I approached the reception desk, when the hospital administrator—who’d been expecting us because Ashley had called ahead—guided us to the ICU. As we boarded the elevator and as we walked the halls, I noticed he seemed to be looking around, perhaps expecting another ambush from Caleb, or for someone to stop us.

No one did.

When we finally arrived at my father’s room, Dan pulled me close, bringing me against his chest and holding me there.

We didn’t go inside. Instead, we stood outside the glass room and looked in. I could barely see him. He was hooked up to some kind of breathing apparatus that covered the bottom half of his face. Plastic tubing traveled from him to various machines, which beeped or buzzed, but held no significance to me.

Dan was the first to speak. “What can I do?” He punctuated this with a kiss on my temple.

“I don’t know.” I shook my head. “I expected to feel something different than what I’m feeling.”

“What are you feeling?”

“Ms. Caravel-Tyson?”

Dan and I both turned toward the sound of my name, finding a doctor hovering some feet away. Next to her was the hospital administrator who’d led us through the labyrinth of elevators and hallways to the ICU.

“I’m Dr. Merkel, your father’s attending.”

Shaking myself, I extended a hand. “Oh. Hi. Nice to meet you. This is my husband, Daniel O’Malley.”

She took my hand, then Dan’s, giving us both a perfunctory smile; I was grateful for her professionalism. “I understand that you haven’t been informed about the full extent of your father’s condition?”

“Please assume I know nothing.”

Her smile fell completely away, and the grim set of her mouth reminded me a little of Eugene’s when he was about to deliver bad news.

“Your father is on life support. He had a stroke three weeks

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