“Kade,” she gasped, tears streaking her face. “Something's wrong… with the baby.”
His blood ran cold.
The air in the room thickened, heavy and suffocating as if the very walls themselves had inhaled and forgotten how to exhale. For a moment, he couldn’t move, couldn’t think. Her words echoed over and over in his skull until they no longer made sense, just sound and dread.
“Okay…okay, Mira, I’m here,” he said, his voice breaking as he fell to his knees in front of her, his hands hovering over her trembling form. Her face was pale, contorted in pain, her body curled in on itself like a wounded animal. “Stay with me, just breathe. Alright? Don’t move, please don't move.”
She doubled over, letting out a strangled scream that shattered something inside him.
He reached for her hand, grippin
