The doctor smiled sadly.
“No.”
For the first time that night, I laughed.
Then the pounding started again.
This time it wasn’t on the door.
It was coming from the hallway.
A nurse ran into the room.
“There’s someone outside asking for Anna.”
Eleanor’s face changed.
“Who?”
The nurse looked nervous.
“Anna’s husband.”
I froze.
Anna had been married.
I hadn’t known.
A man stood in the hallway, pale and shaking.
He was barely thirty.
When he saw Lucy in my arms, he stopped.
Then he looked at Michael.
“You brought her here?”
Michael nodded.
The man walked into the room.
His eyes filled with tears.
“She told me about you.”
I couldn’t speak.
He approached slowly.
“She said her mother deserved to know.”
I looked down at Lucy.
“She was going to tell me?”
“Yes.”
“When?”
He smiled sadly.
“Tonight.”
I closed my eyes.
