ina'
g I noticed wa
ong time, processing it the way your brain processed simple thin
My left side felt like someone had taken a crowbar to my ribs, my head was an experiment in pain I ha
gh my left side was so immediate and violent th
acked ribs on the left side. Sitting up fast i
ties, and had a blank expression. He was sitting i
I asked, voice
aid. "I'm an ER doctor. I p
red a
er." I r
und eleven PM." He said flatly. "I was b
e rain, the car behind me, being too close and th
hit me,
uardrail into the river. I pulled you out and brought
stopped. "Why
as the him. She wore a stethoscope and did the full check without small
then looked at me directly. "I'm D
n though it was a lie. "W
ster, when you came in we did a full exam. And I need te
starts that way doesn
e preg
ated, still unable
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I knew obviously k
rasound, approxim
ile I was pregnant and I didn't
re," Dr. Ri
e could
s tw
ling to produce something I had apparently been producing all along, twins specifically, which felt like
." I r
ause I need you to understand what these babies survive tonight." She folded her hands. "The crash alone, blunt force trauma, the impact your body absorbed, statisticall
ld be dead,"
However, and I need you to hear this clearly, surviving tonight doesn't mean you're
do you
morrow or three weeks from now with very little warning." She held my gaze. "And if you make it to full term, which is a big if, delivering twins after a pregnancy this compromised is going to b
my stomach befo
mpt, I'm pregnant with twins I didn't know existed, and even if everything go
rate summary, y
"Why not include that my apartment also
t Sam blank, unbothered expression that I was starting to un
mething els
out hi
DEAD IN TRAGIC MOU
e then read t
er Daughter-in-law. Investigati
ne off that road. No body found, and investigation was con
't even lo
c calls to people who picked up immediately. That kind of speed doesn't happen without se
e Cruz,"
only name
and the specific, devasting clarity of understanding that the family who
ugh my thoughts. "They'll know they failed,
pressed flat against my stomach. "You'r
om wen
underneath my hands, two heartbeats that had
Growing inside me while his fa
om wen
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