He Banned a Baby in Our Contract, Then Found His Daughter novel · Chapter 14 of 24
Chapter 14: Fix It With Your Hands
Lorcan's POV
They put the machine in under my left collarbone at two in the afternoon, and I was awake for all of it.
It took forty minutes.
I felt a tug and a pressure and the surgeon's elbow against my ribs, and I stared at a ceiling tile with a water stain on it.
I had signed the consent form with my right hand, because the left was strapped to my chest.
I signed it because my daughter had put her ear where the pads had been, and I had felt her listening.
By ten that night my hands would not stop shaking.
Millie slept in the vinyl chair with her boots off and her feet under her.
She had not gone back to the Battery once in five nights, and the nurses had stopped asking.
I lay in the dark with a square dressing on my chest and a green number on the wall.
The number said sixty-six.
I had spent twelve years waiting to be afraid of that number, and now it was only a number.
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