“Me?” I asked, a little surprised.
“What?!” Nora definitely wasn't about to take this in a light mind. “That can’t be true. What are you saying? He-He can’t want to see her.”
“Yes ma’am,” the doctor replied professionally, “he’d specifically asked to see her alone, saying no one else must visit him until she was around.”
Against my will, that warmed my heart. Knowing I was the first person Dale thought about the moment he woke up from an emergency surgery struck me right where it should have.
I didn’t even care about Nora’s tantrums. I wasn’t even interested in snapping at her or anything like that, because just the thought of Dale surviving an accident that could have claimed his life made me so relieved, my eyes were getting watery from joy.
My feet moved, but just as I was about en
