Chapter 7
Once at the hospital—they pulled into the lot singing a Backstreet Boys song together—Linus gathered April in his arms and hoisted her up, positioning her on his left hip. Days of carrying her around were running out. It was another one of the reasons she loved Samson. He always gave her piggyback rides and when she was younger, he used to play pony with her. As she wrapped an arm around his shoulders, clutching the teddy bear for her mom tightly in her other hand, Linus’s mood sank.
He and Samson were an item before April came into the world. In her mind, the two of them had been together forever and that’s how it was meant to be. She grew up with Samson, how devastated would she be if he stopped coming around, stopped being part of her life? The idea of her sad face, her ques
