soft beeping of a heart monitor. Leo was sitting in a

to manipulate me. "The doctor said you and the baby are fine. You just fainted from stress. You

. The baby. He knew about the baby, an

, my voice weak but firm. "I w

en you'll come home with me. I'll take care of you." His words were a th

pale. "What? What do you mean he had an episode?" He listened

he said. "He's at the hospital downtow

to go to him!" I tried to sit up, to pull th

him some of his favorite cookies. She was just trying to be kind, to smooth things over. But she said you called her right before, s

dn't gone there to be kind. She had gone there to provo

rs streaming down my face. "Ple

id, his voi

weak, and collapsed onto the floor in front of him. I didn

t was all my fault. Just let me see my brother. Please, Leo." I lowered my head until my forehead touched the c

oved by my tears, by my desperation. He simply watched. Fo

od there, and between them, my brother Finn. He was in a hospital gown, his eye

ce filled with panic. "Help

of me, blocking my path. He watched as one of the orderlies roughly

shrieked, clawing at Leo's back, but he was l

ors slid shut, cutting off his terrified face. The sound of his cries

espair. A scream tore from my throat, raw and animalistic, a sound of