CHAPTER 36
MICHAELOn Friday morning, Mia and I were at the hospital at three-thirty a.m., an hour and a half before her mother’s scheduled surgery. She couldn’t sleep all last night, tossing and turning in my arms over and over again. And when she had told me about her fears with her mom the other night, I’d wanted to tell her what we had talked about, but I’d promised her mother that I wouldn’t say a word.
Instead, I’d held her tightly and vowed that I’d take care of her, no matter what.
She kissed me on the lips in front of everyone here already—Serena, Victor, and Damien—and disappeared into the hallway to go be with her mother. I wanted to follow her because I knew she was hurting, but I let them have some bonding time for the hour or so they had left.
My stomach was in knots as I
