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"I'll drive you."

""You don't have to."

""It'll be faster. Come on."

"Thanks Jayden."

He leaves a wad of cash to cover dinner and tips on the table and takes me by the arm as he ushers me out. That touch burns into my skin but I can't think about that right now. My baby is in intensive care and I need to get there. The valet brings the car and Jayden opens my door. I get in and before long we roar off into the traffic, weaving and beeping.

"Jayden, slow down, I don't want to have an accident or be delayed if the traffic cops stop you.

"Sorry. Look, you relax, just let me drive. I understand how this must make you feel."

"No, no you don't. Only a parent could understand what it's like to have their only child, maybe the only child they can ever have, in a life-threatening situation. I almost yell the words because stress has me wired so high. He glares across at me. "Only a parent huh?

"That's right." I snap back.

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"Well, isn't that what I am? She's my kid, isn't she? You go on about honesty, but you can't even tell me the truth about something so important. You're a hypocrite."

right now. I told you; Phillip is her father." Tears rolled down my cheeks. This

up to the ICU

to stay." I tell Jayden as I walk into her room and choke up at my baby all hooked up to tubes

playing and the next she was unresponsive. I'm so sorry. The ambulance was

face and those cheeks I love to squish. A

"Are you Abby's mother?"

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soft hand as I speak. I want to scream. My heart is breaking for her. She must have been

trying to protect her, to build a stable life for

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there. My hands start to

a few minutes. The doctor will be along shortly. He'll speak to you outside the room. We don't want any...excitement,

course. Thank

her hand, rubbing her cheek. Anne is behind me and she rubs my

Anne... Why didn't I just stay where we were? Life was so

still happened. You weren't to know Abby would get ill and I know you came back to face up to the past and try and make it right. So Abby could know

out of the past. You have to face it sooner or later. May as well be now, while she's too young to remember much

suck in a breath as I

comes back in. "We need to do some more tests so if you could both just wait

okay? You'll call me

right now. I'll call you, yes.

both very distraught because we had no clue what was happening at the time and there was so much excruciating pain and blood. He'd had a hard time when they wouldn't let him in with me. He carried on in his pretentiously entitled way but they stuck to their rules and said he'd be escorted

through trauma. So they could keep their support system with them and also get the care and attention they needed from the

finally let him in, and he heard I was pregnant and had a complicated miscarriage, and also that I may never be able to conceive again, I thought he was going

him.

if we had to start with

pulling me from my daydream.

he is on his way. I'll

sure? I can

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