EPILOGUE
Addison Hartman was at home for approximately twenty-two hours before she was rushed back to the hospital with preterm labor. Two days after that, she gave birth to twin girls, Charlotte and Isabelle, with William at her side.
The girls were tiny, weighing in at three and three and a half pounds each. But they were healthy and their parents were over the moon.
The moment that tiny bundle was placed in his arms, William Hartman knew he was a changed man. Nothing else in the world would ever matter as much as this did.
He wasn’t sure, as he nervously stroked Addison’s head while the doctors cut her open. He kept asking if she was okay. But just as she’d expected, the second he first heard that faint cry, all attention shifted to his child. “What was it? Was she okay? How much di
