Sophia's POVEthan didn't wait for the next light to change.He cut across two lanes, horn blaring behind us, his jaw set with the same focused intensity I remembered from the night my father collapsed, his hand finding mine across the console even as he drove with the other, gripping tight enough that I could feel his own fear bleeding through the contact."Talk to me," he said. "How bad is it. On a scale, one to ten.""Six," I gasped, another wave rolling through me, sharp and insistent low in my abdomen. "Maybe seven.""How far apart?""I don't know, Ethan, I'm not exactly timing contractions with a stopwatch right now.""Sorry. Sorry." He exhaled hard, forcing his voice into something steadier. "We're almost there. Two minutes, maybe less."We reached the hospital in record time, Ethan practically carrying me through the emergency entrance, his voice sharp and commanding as he demanded immediate attention, the staff moving quickly once they registered the twin pregnancy, the visib
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