Maeve

I didn’t even feel the long, horizontal wound below my navel. The doctors and nurses who had tended to me were shocked as they removed the sutures that should have been in for two weeks but were taken out after only three days.

There had been a discussion about discharging me, but I wouldn’t hear it. I wasn’t going to leave the hospital without Oliver.

He was the smallest of the boys by far. There was practically no fat on his body. But despite ...