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Dakota let out a long string of expletives as the urney over the threshold of the ho day!" Mary whispered to herself

Chapter Two

Thank goodness someone had the sense to invent the hands-free car phone By the tiood ten minutes behind the ambulance It didn’t help that Mary had to run across the street and tell Leroy the plu the ER directly to catch Walt, she went for his personal cell phone He answered on the fifth ring "Dr Eddy"

She’d been practicing this call for a good fiveto be a daddy today?"

Silence met her ear

"Walt?"

"Mary?"

"Well, now that we have the naht like to know that Dakota’s in labor"

She heard hi it out

"Labor?"

Mary felt a s her lips "First there is sex, then there is conceptionninethen labor Didn’t they teach you this in ht Labor Okay I’ve gottadamn itis she there? Let me talk to her"

"Nope, she’s in the ambulance I’m behind her by ten ?" Poor Walt orking himself up

"No" Mary looked over her shoulder and attee into traffic "She couldn’t walk"

"What? Why?"

The BMW behind her wasn’t letting her in without a little persuasion She nudged the nose of her Honda into the other lane in hopes the other driver would show a little conored her like she wasn’t there "Thanks, dude"

"Fell down the stairs?" Walt’s voice elevated

Looked like the Subaru was going to cut her a break "Yeah, broken leg I’m sure she’s fine Broken, but fine"

"What the hell! Back up, Mary What are you talking about?"

Now that she was in the correct lane toher to the hospital faster, Mary focused on the conversation "Dakota’s water broke, she slipped, fellshe thinks she broke her leg"

"You’re serious"