The call lasted four minutes.
The obstetrician's voice was calm in the specific way medical professionals deliver significant information, measured, precise, designed to convey facts without triggering the panic that facts sometimes warranted.
"The ultrasound this morning shows that Twin A — the older fetus, currently at thirty-two weeks, has shifted position significantly overnight," she said. "Combined with the protein levels in this morning's bloodwork, I believe we are looking at the early indicators of preterm labor. I need you in the hospital today, Mrs. Knight. Not tomorrow. Today."
I looked at Lucian.
He was already on his phone, calling Marcus.
We were in the car in eleven minutes.
Cedars-Sinai had a private obstetric suite on the sixth floor that the Knight Holdings medical
