Chapter 10:
Lily coughed again.
I was up and moving before I knew I was standing, through the hallway, into the bedroom, my hand on the crib rail.
She was fine. She was fine. She was curled up on her side with her bunny blanket twisted around her legs and her little face scrunched up and she coughed one more time in her sleep and then she snuffled and settled.
I stood there with my hand on the rail and my heart going way too fast.
"It's a cough," I said. To nobody. To myself. "It's just a cough."
"She's fine."
I turned around.
Kael was in the doorway. Arms crossed. Not looking at Lily. Looking at me.
"She's fine," he said again. "Kids cough. She's got a blanket on. She's warm. She's fine."
"I know she's fine."
"Then why are you white as a sheet?"
I looked at my daughter. Then a
