POV: Yessica | Location: Edinburgh — Royal Infirmary
The contractions had started at four.
She had timed them from the kitchen table while Claire slept, one hand on the counter, the other on her phone. Seven minutes apart. Then five. She had called Pippa at four-forty-one and said: it's time, come now, and Pippa had said: already in my coat.
She had not called Lewis.
She had made that decision three months ago and she was not remaking it at four-forty-one in the morning with five-minute contractions. The decision stood.
Pippa arrived at four-fifty-six.
They got Claire into the car still half-asleep, Eh-fant clutched to her chest, and drove to Theron's house on Marchmont Road where he was already at the door in his coat with the light on.
"Go," Theron said. He took Claire from Pippa'
