Chapter 12
AUDREY’S HEART CRACKED RIGHT in two as Hudson stood there, broad shoulders rigid, hand white knuckling the phone. It was obvious that his celebration yesterday had been premature, and the worst had come to pass. Tears clogged her own throat on his behalf. This would break him in a way nothing else could.
“Did he ever wake up?” The voice that had been full of fun and laughter just minutes before now trembled.
His shoulders slumped at Rachel’s answer. For a few more minutes, he listened, grunting monosyllabic responses as a muscle jumped in his jaw. “I’ll be there.”
As soon as he hung up the phone, Audrey crossed the room. She wasn’t even sure he saw her. But she slid her arms around him anyway, needing to do anything she could to comfort him. “I’m so sorry.”
He stood rigid,
