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Eer sparkled under the fluorescent lights of the hospital rooo, she had walked down the aisle of a church in South Carolina and pledged to love ht that was the happiest day ofthe little bundle of pink in my arms while her mother stared up at me with soday

“She looks like you,” I said, as I studied the baby’s small face

“I see you in her, too”

I thought she was ihter to look like her els on this earth now

“I’ll keep her safe I’ll keep you both safe My girls will always be thewill ever come before you two I swear it”

Emily chuckled “I believe you”

“Thank you for this For her For giving me this life”

Her hand reached out and touchedets to see”

I cuddled e of the bed I had everything in life now I didn’t need any more This was all I needed All I would ever need My life was co would ever take these two angels away from me

The door opened behind us, and a doctor walked in whom I had seen earlier with Harlow

“I’ht, and I did a check on Harlow earlier We have some concerns There was a heartmore than just that, we need to run so her moved to the NICU She needs to be monitored by the proper equipment”

Emily

Kiro held my hand in both of his as the latest update on Harloas delivered I had been released from the hospital yesterday, so Kiro had obtained a room for us to use while Harloas still here I couldn’t leave her I refused to She needed us

“She was blue,” Kiro said slowly, as if it was just sinking in

There was excessive blood flow froht side of her little heart She was having difficulty breathing I inhaled deeply, as if I could breathe for her I had been breathing for her for nine months noanted her back inside me, where she was safe Protected

“She’s going to be OK,” I repeated, to calirl to love and then snatch her away like that I just didn’t believe he was that cruel

“Cardiac catheterization sounds scary as fuck, Eotta be sacred”

I didn’t knohat to tell hiet here She had planned on coht Harlow home so she could help me But I wantedher to me

“She knoe love her She can feel it” I had to believe that, too I needed her to know I loved her

“She’s so fucking tiny If this doesn’t work, they want totofuck, I can’t even say it”