#Chapter 496: Born Still

Olivia The room was silent; no voices, no cries, not even the beeping of the machines could be heard through the rushing of blood in my ears. My baby was silent. He should have been crying, he should have been thrashing at the sudden onset of the cold and noisy world, but he wasn’t. There was just… nothing. “Nathan?” I whispered, craning my neck to look up at my husband. “Nathan, where is he?” Nathan didn’t answer; or rather, it seemed as though he couldn’t answer, as he stood frozen to his spot. His grip was like iron around my hand, and the rest of his body was as still as a statue. He didn’t even blink as he stared up ahead. If I didn’t know better, I would have thought that he was really frozen in time. Slowly, I turned my head toward the curtain that was raised. I couldn’t see anything behind it, but now that I focused hard enough, I could hear the sounds of murmuring somewhere in the unseen part of the room. “D-Doctor?” I called out. “Where… Where is