Chapter Seventeen

Ace.

“How is she?” Paul asked over the phone.

I glanced at the electronic monitor that showed Kaya’s steady heartbeat.

“Stable. I think.”

“Wow.” I could hear Paul shuffling papers on the other end of the line.

“Is there someone I can call? What about her parents? Her brother?”

“Not yet. I want to have something positive to tell them.” I said remembering how we had even ended up with me being her emergency contact.

I didn't know if she had told her family about the break up, and the fact that I had married someone else when I had promised to marry their daughter. I had to have some good news to call them with.

“You don’t think they should know now?” Paul asked, and I could feel the confusion in his voice.

“There is no reason to upset them until there is something to upset them about. The doctors don’t even know what is going to happen in the next twenty four hours. I would hate to get her parents on a plane if it turns out she is going to be home, safe and sound, by the time they