All Chapters of The Wife He Couldn't Keep: Chapter 1 - Chapter 3

Ava’s POVThe fluorescent lights above me hummed like insects trapped in a jar. I stood in the middle of the emergency waiting area of St. Jude Hospital, bare feet planted on the cold tile, and I could not feel the floor. The only thing I felt was the empty space where Lily’s weight had been against my chest. My sweater clung to me, heavy with her sweat and my tears. The fabric stuck to my skin every time I shifted. My hands hung useless at my sides. One still clutched the phone. The other kept rising toward my chest as if it could find her heartbeat there and pull it back into place.People moved around me. A woman with a crying toddler. An old man coughing into a tissue. A security guard near the automatic doors. None of them looked real. The only real things were the double doors at the far end of the room,the ones that had swallowed my daughter,and the way my lungs refused to fill all the way.A triage nurse approached. Her shoes squeaked. She was young, maybe mid-twenties, wit