Her head twists to the side as though she’s listening, but when I meet her eyes, they’re closed. Gritting my teeth, I look up and check our progress. “How much longer? We’ve been on the road forever.”
Nikolai laughs bitterly. “We’ve only been driving three minutes.”
Blyat’. Three minutes? Is that all? It feels like ten times that long. I turn my attention back to Alyssa as she moans and grimaces, fresh sweat beading on her forehead. Is that just the pain or did they give her something? Drugs? An epidural? Either one of those things would be preferable to the devastating reality that she just might be losing too much blood to survive this delivery.
“Approaching the hospital!” Dimiv yells from the driver’s seat.
When the doors of the van are thrown open, Emily is standing just outside, a
