“We need to stabilize her right this second, but your wife is displaying viable life signs,” he answered before sprinting back to his equipment.

Lucas looked up into my face with triumphant tears streaming down his cheeks.

“I told you she was talking to me, Daddy,” he whispered.

The entire family fell completely silent under the pouring rain as the realization struck us that Rachel was somehow still in this world.

PART 2

The ambulance doors closed before I could ask whether Rachel was going to live.

A deputy guided me toward his cruiser, not because I was under suspicion, but because my knees would no longer hold me.