RONAN It’s a long and almost endless drive to the hospital. The distance manages to frighten me. I keep on wondering, asking myself how Sarah and Jaxon would have survived the long road to help. The ambulance would have moved faster, wouldn’t it? I’m not certain it’ll make much of a difference, but I try to tell myself that it would. Neither Malachi nor Jaxon have called with any bad news yet, that should be a good sign. However, there hasn’t been any good news either. “We’re here, sir.” Finally. I look up at the grand hospital building ahead of us. Without a word, I push the door open and step out of the car. The second my right foot touches the ground, my heart begins to pound brutally against the walls of my chest, like fists on a door. Ignore it, push it down. Everythi

