Chapter Eleven––––––––
At Monroe County General Hospital
Hank Montgomery pulled up to the front entrance in his son’s SUV. Lauren was in a wheelchair with baby Grace swaddled and in her lap. Griff manned the chair, proud and worried at the same time. His wife looked like she’d been through a war, and he had an unruly toddler at home, with Verna Carruthers, angrily awaiting the return of his mother.
Griff had had experience with children who were four and five years old, as he had helped raise his niece and nephew after his sister’s husband had died. But babies were new to him. He and Lauren had managed to handle Chip, but it was two against one. And even then, the boy often got the best of the adults. What was he going to do when Hank and Verna left? Griff swallowed hard and pushed his
