Chapter Sixteen
In all the time Lacie sat by her bed, Sorcha kept her eyes on the baby in the plastic hospital crib next to them.
Lacie might have expected Sorcha’s terror, but the awesome wonder was a surprise. Most people must have a sense of incredulity that they had created a life. Sorcha experienced that and more, admitting that she had a fear of holding the baby because she didn’t want to hurt her.
Lacie had hoped that Sorcha would embrace motherhood when it happened but she had worried that Sorcha might not take it seriously. Those worries proved to be unfounded because when a nurse had come in to take the babe back to the nursery, Sorcha had bombarded the staff member with questions. She’d gone to the length of retrieving a notebook to write down the nurse’s answers so she would
