"Such a nice coincidence! She helped me with the hospital paperwork earlier. Sweet girl," Juliette explained.

Ethan watched silently as Lila startled awake.

She jumped up too quickly, forgetting about her IV, and had to sit right back down when the line backed up.

Ethan frowned at her carelessness.

"Why don't you stay with her?" his mother suggested.

"Poor thing's here all alone while she's sick."

Caught between his mother's insistence and his own ...