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“Anything for you, Sylvie,” she said with a wink.
After the other passengers boarded and we started taxiing down the runway, I held my breath until we finally made it into the air.
Mama’s coming, Rachel. Hold on.
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
“Outta the way! Outtathe way! Move!” Marge shouted as she barreled through the airport crowds at LAX.
We all hustled along behind her, my feet moving a mile a minute as we raced to the doors outside where we could catch a cab to the hospital. We burst out the doors, and when we saw a man about to get into a cab, Marge barreled down harder and charged toward him.
“Emergency! This is an emergency! We’re confiscating this cab! Move!”
The startled man jumped out of the way, and we all dove into the backseat.
“UCLA Medical Center!” I panted at the cab driver. “Please hurry!”
As he started off, I pulled out my phone and dialed Tom. When he answered, I exhaled a sigh.
“We’re here! We’re in L.A. and on our way! How is she? Is she okay?”
“She’s okay,” he answered. “But they can’t get her blood pressure down, so they are going to take her in for a c-section soon.”
“Right now?” My heart rate sped to racing.
“In a couple hours. She’ll be okay after the baby is out, and they said she’s far enough along that the baby will be alright.”
“Oh, thank God.” I closed my eyes and exhaled a deep sigh of relief. “Tell her I love her, and that I’ll be there in thirty minutes!”
“She is so excited to see you. And so am I. Room 407. We’ll be waiting. Oh! And Axel, Roxie and Alejandro caught a flight this morning together, and arrived an hour ago. They are in the waiting room waiting for you all.”
“Oh, that is wonderful news. Thank you. I love you, Tom. I’ll see you soon.”
“What’s happening?” Marge asked. “Did we make it in time?”
I hung up the phone and collapsed back in my seat. “We did. They are doing a c-section soon, and they said she’ll be okay. But we’re going to make it in time. I’m going to be there when my grandchild is born.”
