Slim's Second Chance (Phantom Bastards MC Book 2) by Erin Osborne

Author:Erin Osborne [Osborne, Erin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-28T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Shy

AS SOON AS we got to the hospital, the doctors decided to rush her up to maternity so they could do a cesarean section. On the way here, Patience coded twice and their main concern is the baby right now. I’m not thinking my cousin is going to make it.

Guilt begins to eat at me. I should’ve either been at the house with her or made her move to Slim’s with me. If I had, she wouldn’t be on a gurney, her baby being cut out of her stomach while she fights for her life. I would’ve been there to protect her and make sure that no one got their hands on her.

Just as I hear the first wail from my cousin, alarms start blaring. I’m ushered out of the room as everyone scrambles to work on my cousin and the baby simultaneously. Tears are streaming down my face as I walk blindly down the hall.

Before I can make it very far, strong arms wrap around me. I immediately smell Slim’s cologne and leather. Wrapping my arms around his waist, I let him lead me to the waiting room and sit me down on his lap. Never once does he remove his arms from around me or pull my face from his chest. He simply maneuvers me so I’m sitting sideways in his lap.

“She’s coded twice,” I murmur into his shirt. “I don’t think she’s gonna make it, Slim.”

“I’m so sorry, Shy girl. I should’ve figured shit out better,” he tells me, running a hand through my hair.

“I should have made her come with me. Instead, I left her on her own,” I say, letting the tears overtake me once again.

For the next few minutes, neither one of us moves. We sit in the empty waiting room and I let the thoughts and guilt assault me. I try to let the heat and strength from Slim seep into my body and warm me from the chill that’s been filling my body since we pulled up to the house.

“I’m looking for the family of Patience,” a doctor says, jarring me from my thoughts.

“I’m her cousin,” I say, trying to untangle myself from Slim’s body.

“Why don’t we go in one of the rooms over here,” she says, turning away from me.

Immediately, dread fills me. I know without having to walk into the empty room with her that we’ve lost my cousin. She was too beaten and battered for her to overcome. Sobs immediately rack my body as Slim wraps an arm around me and pulls me to the room with him.

“I’m sorry to inform you that your cousin didn’t make it. There was too much damage done to her,” the doctor says, sympathy filling her eyes as she talks to me.

I don’t hear most of what the doctor is relaying to us. The words that Patience didn’t make it are clogging my head and the pounding I hear blocks out everything else. That’s until the thought of her daughter fills my head.

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