If She Knew by Blake Pierce

Author:Blake Pierce [Pierce, Blake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blake Pierce
Published: 2018-11-24T16:00:00+00:00

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After getting information from the front desk, Kate took the elevator up to the mother-baby section of the hospital. She went to the nurses’ desk, hoping to find which room Melissa had been admitted to. Maybe she’d get to see her before things got underway. She had no illusions about being in the room for the birth; that was a duty Melissa would give Terry—a duty Kate would gladly forfeit.

Yet as she reached the nurses’ station, she heard rapid footfalls coming from down the hallway behind her. She turned and saw Terry approaching. He looked frazzled, at his wits’ end. It made him look haunted because Terry Andrews always looked so confident and well put-together.

“Terry…”

“Mrs. Wise,” he said, once again ignoring her order to call her Kate. “It’s bad. They think it’s bad. She’s…”

“Terry, slow down,” she said, feeling her own spikes of fear starting to sting.

“Something’s wrong,” Terry said, tears brimming in his eyes. “They don’t know what yet. But they just took her back for an emergency C-section. Her water broke at home but we didn’t see until we got here…”

“See what?” Kate asked.

“How much blood there was. She kept telling me something was wrong and I just didn’t want to believe it.”

Kate knew she’d have to be the strong one here. She had never seen Terry so shaken up. And God only knew what it would do to Melissa to see him in this state. So swallowing her own fears, Kate took Terry’s hands and looked him in the eyes.

“You got her here safe and sound,” she told him. “You did your job and you did it every well as far as I can tell. Now the rest is up to the doctors. Let’s you and I go sit in the waiting room and let them work, okay?”

He nodded, still looking her in the eyes. And although he seemed calmer, he still would not budge until Kate pulled at his hands and led him into the waiting room. It wasn’t until her face was turned away from him that Kate allowed a few of her own tears of fear and worry to spill down her face.

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