Month: November 2025

Sophie punched WMI’s address into her phone. She had just gotten off the phone with Madeline, who hadn’t received the video that Sophie sent. Sophie checked to see that Adam had received it. He had, and he’d downloaded it onto their home computer. “Sophie, you could be right,” Madeline had said. “I’m begin ning to

Friday morning, Sophie was excited to be seeing Kate again so soon. While she waited for Kate to call with an arrival time, Sophie worked on the challenge of getting Danny to drink an entire feed from his bottle. Up to this point, any milk he wasn’t able to finish by mouth went in through

Adam and Sophie sat together in the parents’ lounge. They talked about all the what-ifs of Danny’s life. Lost in their con versation, Sophie distractedly bit her nails to the quick. Once the conversation wound down and they had run out of things to say, Adam stood up. “Soph, I have to go. I’m sorry,

Sophie and Adam waited outside the pod while Danny had his third eye exam. When the ophthalmologist was done, he called the two of them over. In his brusque manner, he reported that Danny’s eyes were getting worse. Sophie, fearing this conversation was only going to get worse, called out to Kim. Kim saw the

After the seventh patient of the morning, Mitch needed a break. He took the stairs to the eighth floor, where he wanted a decent cup of coffee and a little time in the doctors’ lounge up there. He was still bothered by seeing Adam Young—and that he was clearly filming what was going on in

Sophie waited for Adam to get back from triage. As soon as she saw him through the pod window, she ran out, and the two of them went together into the empty parents’ lounge. The TV blared in the background. “If babies are being born early by accidentally getting the wrong medication,” Adam said to

Triage was cranking. Mitch had two other docs working in triage with him. He was in the middle of examining and admitting one mother, twenty-nine weeks. When he looked up, he saw Adam Young outside of triage talking with Alicia, one of the nurses. She was searching the admitting desk area. He watched as they

Sophie had an idea. She took the elevator to the lower floor and the medical records office. When she was let in, she asked if she could see her medical record—the electronic version. The woman set her up at a table with a laptop opened to Sophie’s medical record. Sophie scrolled through, seeing the exact

Sophie had just sat down on the elevator floor when the lights came back on. Slowly, it started to move. Forty-five minutes after they’d gotten on the elevator, it smoothly delivered the nurse to the sixth floor, then Sophie to the eighth floor. She stepped up to Ms. Cross’s secretary and explained why she was

Sophie stood in front of Adam. “Earth to Adam. Hey, is every thing okay? You’re awfully quiet. Is everything okay at school?” “Yeah, yeah, school’s fine.” Sophie worried not only about Danny but about her husband. She was not going to let the two of them become one of those statistics Jody had mentioned. They