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"I'll drive you."
""You don't have to."
"It'll be faster. Con."
"Thanks Jayden."
He leaves a wad of cash to cover dinner and tips on the table and takesby the arm as he ushersout.
That touch burns into my skin but I can't think about that right now. My baby is in intensive care and | need to
get there. The valet brings the car and Jayden opens my door. | get in and before long we roar off into the traffic,
weaving and beeping.
"Jayden, slow down, | don't want to have an accident or be delayed if the traffic cops stop you.
"Sorry. Look, you relax, just letdrive. | understand how this must make you feel."
"No, no you don't. Only a parent could understand what it's like to have their only child, maybe the only child
they can ever have, in a life-threatening situation. | almost yell the words because stress haswired so high.
He glares across at me. "Only a parent huh?
"That's right." | snap back.
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"Well, isn't that what | am? She's my kid, isn't she? You go on about honesty, but you can't even tellthe truth
about something so important. You're a hypocrite."
"I don't want to talk about it right now. I told you; Phillip is her father." Tears rolled down my cheeks. This is a
nightmare.
When we arrived at the hospital, they rushedup to the ICU wards. Anne is with her and it's only two visitors
at a time.
"No need to stay." | tell Jayden as | walk into her room and choke up at my baby all hooked up to tubes and
monitors.
"Winona. It was so sudden. One minute she was playing and the next she was unresponsive. I'm so sorry. The
ambulance was so fast."
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| touch her little face and those cheeks | love to squish. A nurse comes in.
"Are you Abby's mother?"
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"I am. Can you give us any idea what's happening?" | rub her soft hand as | speak. | want to scream. My heart is
breaking for her. She must have been so scared and | was at damn dinner.
This is stupid. I'm trying to protect her, to build a stable life for her and when she needsthe most, I'm
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not there. My hands start to shake.
"Take a seat with her for a few minutes. The doctor will be along shortly. He'll speak to you outside the room. We
don't want any...excitement, in here."
| nod. "Of course. Thank you, Nurse," | whisper.
| sit beside her, holding her hand, rubbing her cheek. Anne is behindand she rubs my shoulders. What a
mess I've gotten us into.
"Oh, Anne... Why didn't | just stay where we were? Life was so much simpler then."
"Regardless of where we lived, all of this would have still happened. You weren't to know Abby would get ill and |
know you cback to face up to the past and try and make it right. So Abby could know her father." Tears pour
down my face. "But | could have just married Phillip and Abby would have known him as her father, and a good
one."
"Perhaps. But one day Abby would find out and cand ask you. There's no easy way out of the past. You have
to face it sooner or later. May as well be now, while she's too young to remember much of Whoing on."
| suck in a breath as | sob. "I guess."
The nurse comes back in. "We need to do smore tests so if you could both just wait outside."
"She'll be okay? You'll callif anything happens," | ask.
"She's stable right now. I'll call you, yes. Go wait for the doctor."
| briefly wonder if the sdoctors are still here. When | miscarried, | was looked after here and diagnosed.
Jayden and | were both very distraught because we had no clue what was happening at the tand there was
so much excruciating pain and blood. He'd had a hard twhen they wouldn't let him in with me. He carried on
in his pretentiously entitled way but they stuck to their rules and said he'd be escorted from the building if he
didn't calm down.
That's when he wanted to start a wing for families going through trauma. So they could keep their support
system with them and also get the care and attention they needed from the medical staff.
When they would finally let him in, and he heard | was pregnant and had a complicated miscarriage, and also
that | may never be able to conceive again, | thought he was going to cry. He said he'd never realized how much
he wanted something until it was taken from
him.
That one day, we'd have our little family and even if we had to start with nothing, we'd be okay. Together.
My phone buzzed pullingfrom my daydream. It's Phillip.
"Anne, you go home. Phillip just text that he is on his way. I'll keep you updated."
"Are you sure? | can stay."
"I'm sure. Go get ssleep. That way you can take a turn tomorrow while | rest. Thank you for everything. |
really appreciate you and all you do for us."
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"That's what familles do." She givesa hug and leaves.
Then Jayden walks around the corner with two take-out coffee mugs in his hands.
"| thought you left."
"Nope."
"Well, you can. I'm fine."
"Nope. | thought you might need this."
He handsa cup.
"Jayden, I..." | begin to tell him to go but he just sits down.
"I'll wait here until Phillip arrives. | asshe's on his way?" "Yes, he is.
"Great. How is Abby?"
| sat beside him. "I don't know
Jayden. | really don't. She looks so
helpless and tiny." gfe Toe
oly Isloorhirig to speak with me." |
almost dropped the cup because I'm
shaking so much. Jayden carefully
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"I'm sorry for everything. Sorry for
this happening to your little girl. |
wish things were different. | think
she's my daughter buget why"
you've Arie what you've done. Any
parent must protect their child. I'm
beginning to see now what a toxic
environment it is around me." His
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warmth is the comfort | remember
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