Unbreak My Heart by Nicole Jacquelyn

Author:Nicole Jacquelyn
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2016-06-06T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Kate

I sat back down in my hospital bed and started brushing out my wet hair. God, I hated the hospital.

I missed the kids. I missed sleeping deeply. I missed my mom’s cooking and the smell of summer outside.

I hadn’t been in the hospital very long, and the doctors said they only wanted me to stay one more day, since I was almost full term, but I was going stir-crazy. Shane was coming home soon, and my anxiety was building as I prepared for the day he’d get home and realize that we were still in Oregon.

When we’d first arrived at my parents’ house, I’d cried in relief. I’d just been so unbelievably tired. And for the first couple of weeks after that, I’d felt like a new person. With our families around, I’d had far less to do and more time to do it. Everyone pitched in with the kids so I could work during the day instead of late at night. I hadn’t had to bend over the bathtub anymore to give the kids baths because my mom or Aunt Ellie did it, which meant my back wasn’t killing me when I crawled into bed at night.

It had felt like for the first time since Shane had left, I’d been able to relax.

I’d needed that break.

But as I’d slowly prepared myself to go back to California with my little monsters, taking over their day-to-day needs from the other women, my body had begun to protest. It was as if, once I slowed down and my body realized it was possible, it wouldn’t let me go back to the way things had been.

I began to have contractions, and the doctors put me on bed rest.

The window for making it back to California before I had the baby was closed, but I couldn’t tell Shane that. Instead, I’d ignored the questions in his emails and avoided that conversation when he called.

I didn’t want him to worry when he was halfway around the world, especially when that worry could distract him…I also didn’t want to make him angry. We’d grown so close over the last six months that I dreaded anything that would upset the fragile balance we’d found.

He hadn’t told me not to go to Oregon, but he also hadn’t been happy about it. If he’d known that we were stuck there, I wasn’t sure how he’d react.

I was setting my brush down on the bedside table when the door to my room slowly opened but no one greeted me.

“What’s—Shane?”

I couldn’t believe my eyes.

There he was. Tan and healthy and strong, standing in the doorway to my hospital room. My heart raced.

“How’re you feeling?” he asked as he finally stepped inside and let the door swing shut behind him.

“I feel fine,” I answered with a surprised smile and a roll of my eyes. “No contractions for the last twelve hours, but they want to be careful. How are you here?”

I knew better than to hop from the bed and run to him, but I could barely hold myself back as he froze inside the doorway.

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