I Arrived at the Hospital as My Husband’s Wife But They Had Already Called a Woman I’d Never Heard Of – Welcome

on a call, and then he just — went gray, and I was the closest person, so I drove him here.”

“That was kind of you,” I said, and I meant it, genuinely, even through the strange buzzing static that had started somewhere behind my sternum. “Thank you for getting him here.”

“Of course.” She looked between us, clearly registering, in real time, that whatever continue reading …