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Mama that ti she could do to alleviate the heartbreak now but to be there for her, to hold her hand She would wait until she could see Carson She would remain at her side
She’d lost her baby
Carson lay on her back, staring out theof the sterile hospital roootten used to the idea of being a mother To trust her instincts and let nature take its course Was this nature taking its course? Or was she the butt of soreat cosmic joke?
She put her hands on her abdoers delicately tap on her tender belly Only yesterday she had had a baby in there Now she felt a great eown and reached down to grab the blanket she’d kicked off earlier Bending, she felt a sharp pain in her abdoasped with the effort
A nurse walking in caught the uided Carson back against her pillows “No sit-ups quite yet,” the nurse joked
“I’ to reach the blanket”
The nurse covered Carson with the blanket, then quickly added a fresh bag of fluid to her IV “You’re dehydrated Have to keep up your fluids”
Carson alirls to always stay hydrated and moisturize
“Are you up to a visitor?”
“Who?”
“A young are”
“Blake is here?”
“Poor fellow, he’s been out there wringing his hands ever since you came in He your boyfriend?”
“Yes” Carson paused, confused “Or, he was”
“If you don’t want to see hi”
“Wait” Carson’s heart ached to see Blake To share this incomprehensibly sad moment with the only other person who felt the same pain and loss “Please, send him in”
A short while later there was a knock on her hospital door and it opened
An exceedingly disheveled Blake stood hesitantly gripping the door His eyes were ri his fingers through it
“Carson”
She opened her arms to him
The following , Harper lay on her sto at her phone It had been two days since her night with Taylor Forty-eight hours of waiting for the phone to ring or a textShe knew because she checked her phone a hundred times a day
She’d tried to work on her book but was too distracted Frustrated, she cli for Carson She found her on the porch, sitting in the shade, reading a azine with her feet up on the otto dress in a blue island print, and her long, black hair ound in a braid that fell over her shoulder
“Good ” Harper leaned over to place a kiss on Carson’s cheek
Carson frowned “What’s so good about it?”