Chapter 14It was only after the intensive care charge nurse assured Barbara that she would call her with any change in the condition of Lindsay or Janet that she agreed to go home long enough to sleep for a few hours. Brian called a cab to drive them home. They rode in silence, each trapped in his or her own thoughts.
Once they arrived home, they sat down on the couch, exhausted and consumed by worry and fear. Brian could see all of it on Barbara's face, and it added the familiar guilt to the weight of his own thoughts. He put his arm around her gently. He looked into her eyes and saw the worry and the pain there. But the look of innocence needing reassurance did him in. And he knew it would all come out.
Brian knelt on the floor beside the couch and touched her cheek. “Barbara, I'm so s
