Divorce to Destiny: Reclaiming My CEO Husband by Anney GW

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274 Henry's Health Crisis (Jayden)

Henry's been in isolation for hours now, hooked up to every machine imaginable. The sight of him behind that glass, with tubes in his tiny body, knocked the wind out of me. My son. My tiny boy. He'd been doing so well.

And there's nothing I can do to help him. I can't hold him. I can't even touch him. All I can do is stand there and pray the doctors figure out what's wrong.

They think it's a virus or some type of infection, something that hit him hard and fast, but they haven't ruled anything out yet.

His heart-there's always a fear that the genetic defect that runs through our family might resurface.

I can't even think about that possibility

"Jayden, I don't understand how this could happen so quickly," Winona says, breaking the silence, her voice shaky, barely above a whisper,

I stop pacing and go to her. Her eyes are red-rimmed, and I know she's on the verge of breaking. I put my arms around her shoulders. "I don't know," I admit, my voice hoarse. "But they're doing everything they

can.

She nods, but her eyes drift away again, her fingers fidgeting in her lap. I know that look. She's here, but she's not. Not completely. Something's pulling her focus away from Henry.

Is she thinking about someone else from this past week? Phillip?

"Winona." My voice is sharper than I mean it to be, but I'm at my limit. "Where are you right now?"

Her head snaps up, her eyes wide in surprise. "What?"

distracted. You're not fully here. What's going

guard, and for a moment I think she's going to deny it. But then she

but also

"I've been calling and texting, but there's nothing. I haven't heard from her since a message yesterday about changing her flight and going hiking out of cell service. And now... I don't know. Something feels wrong."

in her voice is unmistakable. "But Gus said she was still planning to

"Gus?"

But he came back yesterday on his way back to Europe on

about all this

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she hadn't heard from Gabriel either. He wasn't answering her calls

knows about this too? You should be coming to me with this

dropped into the club last night to wish us well on our wedding day before he left. I called Judy to get

to focus on Henry. I'm sure Cass is fine. But maybe, check incoming flights. See what time she might get

still tremble. "I just want them to say our boy is going to

immediately, our eyes locked on him. His face is grim,

he's responding to the treatment. He's on a breathing machine to help his lungs, and we've started him on

Isolation. I nod mechanically, my mouth

"We've run tests, and it's not his heart. It's a virus. But his immune system is struggling to fight it off. We're doing everything

of me, my knuckles white. Winona

it tightly, like holding on to her is the only thing keeping me from falling

see him?" she asks, her voice

the doctor says gently. "I'm sorry. He needs to be kept in a sterile environment until we identify

the alternative." The doctor gives us a grave look.