Caleb
I’d never known silence could hurt this much.
The hospital room was still, too still—no beeping, no crying, no life. Just Sonya in the hospital bed, wrapped in sterile sheets that smelled like antiseptic and medicines.
I sat beside her, holding her hand even though she wasn’t awake.
I hadn’t left her side since the moment the doctor gave us the news.
We’d lost the baby.
Our child.
My pup.
The words were still too cruel to speak. Too cruel to even think.
Everything else faded into white noise.
Business with Erick? I didn’t care.
The contract, the partnership, the reputation I had worked tirelessly to build—none of it mattered now.
The world could burn around me, and I wouldn’t have noticed. All I could think about was that little heartbeat that was there one day and g
