#Chapter 161: There For You

With my phone pressed to my ear, I listen to it ring. Around me, the hospital hallway is busy, nurses and doctors hurrying around, going about their business. Standing outside of Thea’s room, I watch my parents worry as they watch her in her bed. I’m worried too, which is why I’m so desperate to hear Miles’s voice. The doctors have sedated Thea, and the baby seems okay for now. But she needs to find a way to calm down or she risks losing the child. Thea might have brought this fate upon herself, but cheating and then expecting Garnar to stay. Further, she deluded herself into thinking that the baby was Garnar’s, despite the insurmountable evidence to the contrary. It was almost too much to bear. Thea and I have our differences, but this is not the life I ever wanted for her. I’m less resentful now about her and Garnar. Showing me the kind of person Garnar truly is saved me a world of trouble and heartbreak. It helped open me to the new kind of life I could lead without his