Chapter 19
Visiting her parents seemed like a strange dream after the crazy day. Natalie walked into the hospital room, pasted a smile on her face and the stress fell off her shoulders the second she saw her mother’s healthy glow as she sat on the bed. Her mother was always the strong one in their family, so seeing her as frail scared something deep inside Natalie’s soul.
Holding Galen’s hand the entire way from the parking lot had kept her calm. He hung back now as she had the urge to run forward. So she walked calmer next to him and introduced everyone. As she pointed to her bald, but clear blue-eyed mother, whose face was free from pain and her cheeks flushed with health, next to her gray haired brown-eyed father, whose shoulders were still tight with worry, she said, “Galen, this is
