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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."

Phillip is her father." Tears

up to the ICU wards. Anne is with her and it's

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

and the next she was unresponsive. I'm

face and those cheeks I love to squish.

"Are you Abby's mother?"

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want to scream. My heart is breaking

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

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there. My hands start

The doctor will be along shortly. He'll speak

Thank you, Nurse,"

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

didn't I just stay where we

to the past and try and make

day Abby would find out and come and ask you. 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

a breath as I sob. "I

need to do some

be okay? You'll call me

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

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

a wing for families going through trauma. So they could keep their support system with

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

him.

family and even if we had to start with nothing,

phone buzzed pulling me from my daydream. It's

that he is on

sure? I

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