"I know."
Looking up into Kirsten"s face, into the grim-set blue eyes and the clenched jaw, Lea was struck by how much she looked like her brother. "Yeah," said Lea. "Let"s go."
There is no car ride so long or so short as a ride to the hospital.
Since her own birth, Lea had only been in a hospital twice — both times to visit friends who"d just had babies. This didn"t seem anywhere nearly as exciting. It was, in fact, frankly terrifying. Driving well above the speed limit, not knowing whether Sean was even alive. Terrifying.
alive.Andy did text once: Surgery.
Surgery.Well. That implied that Sean was still alive.
Lea felt so f*****g stupid. Why was she upset? How could she not have seen this coming? She knew her boys bargained with death every day. They danced through burning buildings
