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its all in me

CHAPTER NINETEEN

Just knock et a baseball bat and hit h!" Kate felt the pain twist through her insides and tear her apart

Beside her Johnny was saying "Come onha ha hayou can do it Breathe hahalike this Remember our class? Focus Visualize Dyou want that statue we—"

She grabbed him by the collar and yanked hioing to take you down I want drugs—"

And it was back, wrenching, cutting, twisting through her until she cried out For the first six hours shed been pretty good Shed focused and breathed and kissed her husband when he leaned down to her and thanked hi to her forehead In the second six hours she lost her natural sense of opti pain was like so less and less

By hour seventeen she was a flat-out, cast-iron bitch Even the nurse came and went like Speed Racer

"Cos You heard the doctor It wont be er "

She noticed that even as he tried to soothe her, Johnny didnt get too close He was like some terrorized soldier in a minefield whod just seen his best friend blown up He was afraid to move at all

"Wheres Mom?"

"I think she went down to call Tully again "

Kate tried to concentrate on her breathing, but it didnt help The pain was rising again, cresting She clung to the bedrails with sweaty hands "Getmeicechips!" She screa Johnny bolt for the door, if she hadnt felt like that girl swi alone in Jaws

The door to her private roo a total bitch-o-rama in here "

Kate tried to s "I dontwanttodo this anymore "

"Changed your" Tully moved to the side of the bed