Chapter Fifty Six:
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QUINN RAN THROUGH the hospital doors at full speed. A message had been left on her phone over an hour ago. Some kid saying Staten had been shot and was at the hospital in Lubbock. No details.
When she’d heard it, she had dropped her quilt and grabbed her keys. All the way to the hospital she’d thought of how mad she still was about what he’d said when he found out she was pregnant. How could he think that there would be another man in her life?
Only now, if he died, what did being angry with him matter? She still loved him, still wanted their baby. The thought of facing the years ahead without Staten in her life was too much to bear. She needed him. Wanted him to share the joy of a child with her.
The memory of the touch of his hand across her abdomen almost a wee
