I Had Barely Finished Holding My Son’s Newborn Baby When a Nurse Pulled Me Aside and Whispered, “That Isn’t the Child He Left With”

Gone.

And I had been buying blankets for one baby I thought was still months away.

PART 9 — THE MORNING

Chloe’s blood pressure had become dangerously high overnight.

By dawn, doctors were concerned about both her condition and the twins.

Emergency delivery.

Julian went with her.

Marissa, meanwhile, was scheduled for induction at another facility within the same hospital system.

Then her labor progressed rapidly.

The timing became almost impossible.