My runaway ex ran into my ER with his injured daughter, not knowing I was the doctor on duty. He begged me to save her. But when the sweet little girl pulled me close and whispered, “Grandma said your baby shouldn’t be born,” I looked at my ex-husband as his face turned pale with fear…

Bay 3. What is your name, sweetheart?”

“Sophie,” the little girl whimpered through her heavy, ragged tears. “I fell… I fell off the big playground equipment at my school.”

“From the monkey bars?” I asked softly, signaling for a nurse to bring a pediatric gown and a mobile X-ray unit.

Sophie managed a tiny, jerky nod. “My daddy got really, really scared.continue reading …