Never Without Hope (Sacred Vows Book 1) by Michelle Sutton

Author:Michelle Sutton [Sutton, Michelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Healing Hearts Books
Published: 2013-06-08T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

I’m not sure how I made it to the big city without falling asleep at the wheel. I had to turn off the heater because it was making me sleepy. And the highway droned on and on until my eyes started crossing. I slapped my face a few times, just to keep alert.

My precious Jimmy snoozed through the whole thing. I almost pulled over to the side of the road once because I simply couldn’t keep my eyes open anymore. But then we approached the exit and I breathed a sigh of relief. We were almost there.

Jimmy stirred beside me and rubbed his eyes when I found a parking space and cut the engine. The officer opened her window and waved, then she drove back out of the parking lot, probably heading back to Crandall to respond to another call.

The blinding light emitting through the sliding doors at the emergency room entrance made my head throb. It had been ten long years since I’d last entered a hospital emergency room.

The night I’d lost both of my parents because of a drunk driver. In a flash the emotion from that night came flooding back, and I wondered if I’d have the strength to go inside.

Jimmy noticed my hesitancy and reached for my hand. Bless his little heart, he seemed to anticipate my needs. Too bad he needed to be so responsible so young. I didn’t really like relying on him, but right now he was all I had left besides my sister, who wouldn’t be arriving until the day after tomorrow.

I decided I’d wait until she arrived to tell her what had happened to James. It would be too hard to share the details with her over the phone. And I still couldn’t believe the cops had tazered my husband and almost killed him!

So with Jimmy’s hand in mine I approached the front desk. “I’m here to sign James Williams into the hospital and fill out insurance forms.”

“And you are?” The blonde admissions lady glanced over her reading glasses at me.

“I’m his…wife.” I felt weird claiming him even though we’d been married 13 years. Would he still want me to be his wife when he recovered? I doubted it. So rather than risk causing him more stress, I would fill out the forms, then peek in on him, but not stay and visit. I didn’t want to make him more upset than he already was.

Jimmy leaned on my shoulder and closed his eyes as I completed the paperwork. I yawned several times and had to keep rereading some of the lines. They made no sense to me. I was too tired to comprehend much of anything.

When I finished, I jostled my son just enough to wake him. Handing the paperwork to the admissions clerk, I hesitated. I really wanted to know how James was doing, but worried she might ask too many questions. Still, I had to know.

“How is James doing?”

The woman glanced at her watch. “He’s been getting tested for about an hour now.

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