CHAPTER 12
“So, this brain bleed thing, it happened while she was being born?”
I rolled my eyes. I’d been telling Jake the same thing for five days, but it wasn’t until he got to Seattle that he started to process any of it. He wanted to come right away, he told me, but he had to wait until he got his paycheck, and then he needed to wait until his buddy Marcos was driving out that way because Jake didn’t trust his beat-up lemon of a Pontiac to make it all the way over the North Cascades. I tried not to show how surprised I was just to see him at all. But I couldn’t hide how annoyed I was at all his questions. “Go to the NICU and talk to the nurses. Or go in the morning so you can catch the doctors doing their rounds. Ask them all the questions you want.”
But he wanted to hear it from me
