HE LIFTED THE BLANKET EXPECTING TO FIND PROOF HIS PREGNANT WIFE HAD BETRAYED HIM

filled the room.

Rapid.

Steady.

Alive.

Emma sobbed.

Lucas lowered his forehead against their joined hands.

“He’s okay,” a nurse said gently.

But no one said Emma was.

A doctor named Patel examined her legs and asked questions that made Lucas’s skin crawl.

Had she fallen?

Had she been restrained?

Had anyone injected her with medication?

Had she experienced shortness continue reading …