(Cole)
They took her in at just after four.
I stood in the corridor and watched the doors close behind her. Then I found a chair and sat down and stared at the floor and told myself that she was in good hands. That the procedure was straightforward. That Dr. Reeves had done this before. That the triplets were fine. That everything was going to be fine.
I told myself all of that and then I sat there and waited anyway because there was nothing else to do.
The corridor was busy in the way hospital corridors always were, people moving past with purpose, nurses, doctors, visitors, porters, everyone with somewhere to be and something to do. I had nowhere to be. I had one thing to do and it was sit in this chair and wait for someone to come through those doors and tell me she was okay.
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