Neil couldn’t remember ever having felt so helpless. Even through the storm with Candy, keeping her safe over and over, nothing compared to holding her on his lap as she hemorrhaged and went limp in his arms. Even when she had fallen into that hole after the storm, when she was running from him, the icy terror he had felt then had nothing on this.
Jed had driven fast and furious, blasting his horn as he swerved around slow drivers, crossing the center line over and over as he pulled up to the emergency doors of Well Grey Hospital. Those had been the longest ten minutes of Neil’s life.
The emergency personnel raced out with a gurney, pulling Neil’s door open before Jed could stop.
“What happened?” a doctor asked as Neil set Candy on the gurney.
“She just collapsed. She’s pregnant. Is sh
