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After that, I had no idea what they thought of one I could see why he’d hateto move past it all, asn’t he?
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Ready for me?
A reply came instantly
Born ready
I soing to see this through Already I could see the future laid out Her, et soree in geology? She’d go to grad school Soure out how to undo this stupidin the ht run into the same security schmuck, I circled around to the back side where the ambulances unloaded for the ER The doors slid open as I approached, and only a wo to her paperhen she saasn’t bleeding or about to collapse
A hall to the right proh corridors until I found a set I had to zigzag through a new addition to get to the main tower, but stopped dead when I calass and a row of baby beds lined up like a store candy display
Some new dad in blue scrubs held up a little bundle in a striped blanket so a gray-haired couple could snap photos, their flashes bouncing off the s
Finn had never been in a room like this, whisked away from the labor suite into the NICU and covered in discs and tubes This dad got to unwrap the baby as a nurse started the process of cleaning him off, the white stuff -- vernix, Corabelle had called it -- still on his neck and in the creases of his ars
My boots were rooted to the floor, and no matter how hard I wanted to turn away frohed behind his e started to build in uy deserved his moment He was probably raised in some white-bread suburb with a super-dad who’d coached Little League and took hi wrenches if his ten-year-old son’s fingers were too fuet a corroded cla, giving healthy kids to some people and sorrow to others
Hell, noas in no shape to see Corabelle, to soothe her I had to bring it down Ito the elevator bank so I could cross over to her wing via some other floor, any other ward but this one
I forced et what I’d seen as I approached her hallway Straighten up Be there for her But I still felt sharp-edged as I entered the roo a notebook as she tried to type s fro sucks, ers have better uses," I said, pulling a stool up next to her bed
"Is that as close as you’re getting?" She flattened her knees and set the iPad and notebook on the side table
"Well, scoot over then, you bed hog"
She shifted over and I crawled in next to her "Did you time the nurses?" I asked