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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."

to talk about it right now. I told you; Phillip is her father." Tears

up to the ICU wards. Anne is

walk into her room and choke up at my baby all

It was so sudden. One minute she was playing and the

and those cheeks

"Are you Abby's mother?"

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you give us any idea what's happening?" I rub her soft hand as I speak. I want to scream. My

stable life for her and when she needs

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a seat with her for a few minutes. The doctor will be along shortly. He'll speak to you outside the room. We

Thank you, Nurse,"

cheek. Anne is behind

I just stay where we were?

where we lived, all of this would have 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

There's no easy way 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

a breath as I sob. "I

some more tests so if you could both just wait

call me if anything

stable right now. I'll call you, yes. Go wait for

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

their support system

heard I was pregnant and had a complicated miscarriage, and also that I may never be able

him.

if we had

phone buzzed pulling me from my daydream. It's

just text that he is on his way. I'll keep you

you sure? I

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