Chapter 243 With A Child
- "Anything else? Dad said you'd already been admitted to the hospital."
- As always, the family played the same card—illness, urgency, guilt. Asher had learned to spot the bluff a mile away. What if one day it isn't a bluff?
- Whatever their quarrels, she was still the woman who had carried him, who had paced the floor through his childhood fevers and nightmares.