Chapter 8
I sat on the curb in the middle of the night in parking lot of the hospital, head in hands, trying to make sense of everything. It wasn’t easy. I’d been sitting out there for a while, not really sure how long, when Casey came out and sat next to me. He put his coat around my shoulders and the warmth suddenly reminded me how cold I was. I closed my eyes and leaned against him when he put his arm around me.
“Hey, it’s going to be okay, you know. They’re going to do bypass surgery. The doctors here are great,” Casey assured me.
“Yeah.” I nodded. They had him stabilized and my mom was in with him as they were prepping him for the surgery. Tears stung my eyes and I wanted to will them away. I did not cry. Not over Ira. “Did I…did I cause him to have a heart attack?”
“You? What? No
