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need some information from you while they take her back.” I turned to the older lady who was holding out a clipboard with papers for me to fill out. I snatched it out of her hand and followed them as they pushed Zoelle, who looked as though she was about to pass out.
    They got us into a room and everything seemed to happen at once.  They got her in a hospital gown and up on the bed, her legs in the stirrups. She looked over at me and her clammy hand held on to mine as they told her to push. Everything was happening so fast. They didn’t even have time for any pain medications. This baby was coming out now.
         “Okay, mom, just a few more pushes. I can see the head now. Ready one. Two. Three. Hold it. Good job. One more push.” I looked down as the doctor was lifting the baby. There was so much blood. The doctor handed over the baby and moved back to Zoelle. I looked over at her. Her eyes were closed and her skin was pale. I squeezed her hand but it was limp.
    “Zoelle. Zoelle.” I called her name over and over waiting for her to react. The doctor and nurses were running around and more people came into the room. The baby was rushed out of the room.
    “Sir, I’m going to have to ask you to take a step back please.” I looked at the doctor but I didn’t want to move from her side. The machines around her were beeping. I needed to find our baby. Where did they take her? I slowly let her hand slip from mine as I backed up and headed for the door. As soon as I was no longer in the room, I stopped the first nurse I could find.
    “Where did you take my baby?” I growled.
    She looked at me, her mouth hanging open. “Ahh well, sir, what room are you in?”
    “That one.” I pointed back at the closed door. “5430.”
    “Okay, sir, give me a minute.” She walked over to a computer. “Mother’s name?”      
    “Zoelle Taylor.”
    “And your name, sir, and relationship to Zoelle”
    “Seanix Taylor, her husband,” I spit through gritted teeth.
    “Okay, sir, they have baby Taylor in the NICU. It’s—”
    I didn’t wait for directions, there were signs on the walls to point me there. I found the first sign and headed in that direction. It didn’t take me long to find the Neonatal Unit. I stood outside a wall of windows searching for a face I was sure I would recognize as soon as I laid my eyes on her. I wasn’t sure how long I stood there before a nurse approached me.
    “Nix?” I turned to the girl. She looked familiar but I couldn’t place her.
    “Lisa.” She smiled up at me as she said her name. Shit, this was Venom’s old lady’s little sister. “You look lost. Can I help you with something?”
    “Yeah, my baby they brought—” She held up her finger cutting me off.
    “Hold on Nix let me see what I can do.” She walked into the room and went up to the nurse who was standing outside of a clear box with a rainbow color of tubes going in all directions. She turned to me and smiled then walked back to me.
    “Okay Nix, here’s the deal. You cannot go in there looking like you do. You’re covered in blood and who knows what else. So I am going to get you a pair of scrubs to change into and you’re going to take a shower, then you can come back and see your daughter.”
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

Chapter Ten
     
     

    I woke up with arms wrapped around me, holding me in place, a warm body behind me. I was still dressed. This was different. I didn’t normally wake up next to someone wearing clothes. I turned in his arms and watched as Payne slept. He was beautiful. Sexy, sweet, caring—and I didn’t deserve him. For some reason though we were drawn to each other.
    His eyes opened and we laid there staring at one another. “Morning beautiful,” he whispered as he leaned forward and pressed a kiss to my forehead. “How ya feeling?”
    I smiled. “Okay.”
    “Just okay? I think I can make that okay into something better.” He rolled over on top of me.
    “Just how are