Wayne County General Called Late One Night to Tell Me My Ex-Wife Was Sixteen Weeks Pregnant

The red line light blinked three times before I picked up the heavy receiver.

“Lucas Moretti speaking,” I said.

“Mr.

Moretti, my name is Nurse Amanda Foster,” a quiet, carefully reserved voice said on the line.

“I’m the night charge nurse at Wayne County General Hospital.”

I got to my feet, my hand tightening around the heavy crystal glass.

“Who authorized this call?”

“A trauma patient was brought into our emergency wing twenty minutes ago after a single-vehicle crash on Woodward Avenue,” she said.