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“No,” the other nurse answered. “Feet first is definitely bad.”
My eyes widened.
One of the nurses hit a button on the wall.
Another was shoving shit around.
And then there was my husband, standing between my legs, paperwork all but forgotten on the chair beside the bed.
He reached down and…
Came up with my baby in his hands when I couldn’t stop myself from pushing.
He looked at me. Then at the baby. Then at the nurse. Then back at me. Before he looked back at the baby.
The baby started to wail.
And I started to cry right along with him.
“Umm,” Banner said as he held our newborn in his hands. “That’s really gross.”
“It’s normal,” the nurse who’d been doing the shoving around of stuff said as she came up to me and laid a blanket on my chest. “Put the baby here. Let’s get her cleaned off. Natalie, page Doctor Rhodes. And whomever is the on-call pediatrician right now.”
Banner placed our wailing baby on my chest, and I looked down in awe at the miracle we’d created together.
“Holy hell,” Banner breathed as he looked at his hands. “I didn’t even wash them. Do you think that’s okay?”
I couldn’t help it.
I laughed.
TRANCE & VIDDY
CHAPTER 4
My man risks his life for strangers. Just imagine what he would do for me.
-Viddy to a stranger
TRANCE
“Perry is in labor,” my wife said, jumping over the back of the couch, doing a barrel roll, and landing in my lap.
I laughed at her exuberance and wrapped my arms around her tight. “How do you know?”
I hadn’t heard the phone ring.
“She sent me a text,” she answered. “They just left for the hospital. We have to go. Now. Take this.”
Before I could so much as prepare for something to be shoved into my mouth, I was all but swallowing a pill. My wife’s finger was shoved so far down my throat that I had no possibility of not swallowing it.
I grimaced and pulled back as I tried to get the taste of that disgusting pill out of my mouth.
“But Viddy, baby,” I whined. “Why do I have to go?”
“Dad,” Ford said. “Stop being a little bitch and get in the car.”
I pulled at my bottle of Xanax that I could see poking out from Viddy’s pocket and popped another one, just in case.
