Page 76 of Falling for You
“She has to be.” I won’t even entertain the idea that she isn’t.
Emma just nods, going back to staring out the window.
When we are about five minutes away from the hospital, she gets the first text returned on her phone.
“Mom and Pops are on their way. Wyatt is going on shift, but said to call if we need him. Mom is going to pop into the inn to let Violet know, she probably doesn’t have her phone while she’s baking early in the morning. And someone will be there to get Fi.”
“I guess I should probably text Eve too. Update her.”
“I’ll do it.” She picks up her phone again.
I pull into the parking lot of the hospital’s emergency department twenty minutes sooner than the GPS told us and take the first spot I can find.
I shut off the truck, and run around to let Emma out. I grasp her hand in mine, holding on tightly.
I’m not ready if we’re about to get bad news.
We run in and give the woman at the front desk our names and who we’re here for. She directs us to a small curtained off room. We push the curtain back and find Olivia with a nurse, not Diane.
“Excuse me, do you know where the Ryans are?” I ask, trying to keep my anger in check because it isn’t this nurse’s fault that Diane and Wayne are failing my baby girl.
She points me in the right direction but Emma is already in the chair next to Olivia’s bed.
I stalk off to find Diane, ready to rip her a new one for leaving a baby on her own. When I get to the room I was directed to, I peer through the curtain and see Diane holding Wayne’s hand as the doctor talks.
Not wanting to interrupt, I walk back to Olivia’s room. “They were with the doctor, could you please let them know we are here when they are done?”
The nurse nods. “I’ll get Dr. Williams for you.”
I rush over to Emma and Olivia. “Can we hold her?”
“She said not yet, not until the doctor gives us the okay. At least Diane told them we were coming and that they were free to discuss things with you.”
I sit opposite Emma on the other side of the bed, holding Olivia’s other hand. She isn’t crying but she wasn’t excited to see either of us. No raspberries. No cooing. She’s just laying there with a pout on her face.
“It is killing me to not pull her into my arms and snuggle her close.” The tears in her eyes are unshed but glistening as they well up looking at Olivia.
There’s a knock at the door. “Excuse me, are you Mr. Thomas?”
“Yes, yes I am. What is wrong with Olivia?” I jump out of my seat to meet the doctor at the end of the hospital bed.
He reaches out to shake my hand. “Olivia should be alright. She doesn’t appear to have any injuries. I think she could probably use some physical contact right now, but there are no broken bones, no concussion.”
Both Emma and I release a breath. “Thank God. What do we need to do next?”
“She should be all set to be discharged in just a few more hours. We just want to keep an eye on her for a bit, make sure nothing comes up, but I’d say you should be out of here just after breakfast.” He offers us a smile, but the turmoil swirling in the pit of my stomach is threatening to come back up.
How the fuck could Diane not be in here with herbabygranddaughter?
“Roman?” A meek voice sounds from the hallway.
“What?” I ask angrily.
Emma places a hand on my arm. When I look at her she gives me a look with raised eyebrows that saysbe kind.
I take a deep breath, “I’m sorry, Diane. How is Wayne doing?”
“He has unstable angina. It can be the start of a heart attack so he will need to be admitted. He will be getting a lot of tests, and most likely a procedure to unblock the clogged arteries in his heart.” She tries to hold back the tears forming in her eyes.
