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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."

don't want to talk about it right now. I told you; Phillip is her father." Tears rolled down

at the hospital, they rushed me up to the ICU wards. Anne is with her

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

was so sudden. One minute she was playing and the

face and those cheeks I love to squish. A nurse

"Are you Abby's mother?"

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hand as I speak. I want to scream. My

stable life for her and when she needs me the most,

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there. My hands start to

a few minutes. The doctor will be along shortly.

nod. "Of course. Thank you,

Anne is behind me and she rubs my shoulders. What a mess I've gotten us

where we were? Life was

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

suck in a breath as I

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

okay? You'll call me

you, yes. Go wait for the

much excruciating pain and blood.

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

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 to cry. He said he'd never realized how much he wanted something until it was

him.

day, we'd have our little family and even if

phone buzzed pulling me from my daydream. It's

just text that he is on his

sure? I

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