Episode 513: Anything For My Baby

Labor had dragged her through the wringer for hours. Now she was just… alone.

Her eyelids were heavy, constantly drawn down like unleashed blinds, but there was no way the rest of her could sleep regardless of the exhaustion plaguing her bones.

The instant her ears picked up on movement in her room, her eyes flashed open as if they didn’t weigh a ton and her heart rate reared out of control. She sprang off the pillow. "Is she- Oh, it’s you." Her head slammed back onto the pillow and she stared up at the ceiling, fighting back a storm of tears.

Lucy felt him take a seat on the edge of her hospital bed. His hand stroked her cheek. "I’m sorry I didn’t get here sooner. I came as soon as I got your message."

She turned her face from his. "I shouldn’t have called you. You don’t have to stay. I was just scared." She was still scared. There were far too many scary things for her weak state to make sense of; at least to make sense that didn’t leave her even more on edge What had Curran been doing on the floor? Why hadn’t he been sleeping with his wife? Were they having problems? Would her baby not have a solid home after all? And if she did, would she even be healthy enough to get there?

"Are you alright? I mean, were there any complications for you or anything? You don’t have much color," he noted, his worried eyes all over her.

"I’m okay," the tears began choking her voice, "It’s her. Our baby. There’s something wrong with her but nobody’s come back to tell me. They just took her and rushed out of here. And the Gables followed."

He nodded. "I’m not going anywhere."

Episode 514: A Ride Back Home