But you’re alive, and your babies are alive, and right now that is the only thing in the world that matters.

The rest can wait for the ambulance.” And the rest did wait.

But not for long.

Chapter 9 — The ICU

I woke in the intensive care unit of the regional hospital with my hands wrapped in heavy bandages for frostbite and a strange fire in my veins as the machines and the doctors worked to bring my core temperature back up from a place it was never meant to go.

For a few seconds I did not know where I was.