leaped from the sofa, not like a woman in delicate condition, but like an athlete. She thre

oor lamp that my stumble had dislodged. The lamp wasn't going to hit me, but in her d

r, moaning in pain. "My s

y, his entire world narrowing to the whimpering woman on the floor. My own pain was a silent scream, drowned o

g Chloe into his arms. He ran out of the cabin, leaving

floor. The pain was a relentless wave, and the floor felt cold agai

m, Liam was in another with Chloe. A nurse came to take my blood

Rh-negative. The hospital is low on it." He looked at me, his eyes cold and hard.

ing me, the wife he had betrayed and abandoned,

ed, the pain in my abdomen sti

at stake! You owe me this. After all your failures

as my personal failure, a debt I now had to repay with my own blood. Before I could protest

be, I felt dizzy and weak. My own

rse. "This patient is showing signs of a th

ooked confused. "Miscarriage? What are y

r wife is seven weeks pregnant. But her condition

up on, a secret my body had been keeping. And now, my hu

oom rushed over. "Mr. Patterson, Ch

glance, his face full of relief. He left me in the sterile r

wrenching cramp. I felt a devastating sense of loss, a hollowing out that was far worse than any phys

one. The love was gone. Everything was gone. When the nurs

ve a husban

Liam had always said he loved. I watched the dark strands fall onto the white hospital sheets, each snip a