Shattered Dreams (Dreams Series Book 1)
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“It was my pleasure,” I reply, my mind floats back to that night in the stable, recalling the raw passion and frenzied lovemaking that gave us our beautiful baby girl.
“Happy belated birthday, Trey. I love you.”
The clock over the glass windows of the nursery read 11:17 p.m. Nurse Sheila Bradley completed the last diaper change of her shift. She would be clocking out for the night in a little less than ten minutes. Five new babies in the nursery. Four baby boys and one baby girl. They are all down for the count, as least as far as her shift goes. Four tiny little blue cotton caps and one tiny little pink cotton cap. Five precious little angels.
It almost makes Nurse Bradley long for her childbearing days. They seem to have gone by in a flash. It makes a woman feel different psychologically when the reality sinks in that childbearing is gone forever. She supposes that's why God created grandparents. She peers out into the empty corridor on the other side of the glass viewing windows. That was a strange bird that had come in a little more than an hour ago. How did she slip up to the maternity floor unnoticed like that with visiting hours long since over? The woman was petite and attractive; she looked like she wasn’t much past forty. Seemed nice enough but she was one bull-headed lady. Said she was from out of town and just got into Atlanta that very minute.
It was strange that the woman didn’t want to see her daughter. She'd been adamant about not disturbing her since she'd gone through a very complicated labor and delivery. Young girls always think their labor and delivery is complicated when it’s their first birth. Nurse Bradley chuckles to herself. The mother’s chart mentioned no such complications when she looked it up to see which baby she'd delivered.
Nurse Bradley should have followed regulations and called Security when the petite woman insisted she wouldn't leave until she got to see her grandchild. It was her first grandbaby, she said, and she wanted to see it. Hell, there wasn’t any harm done. It took all of two minutes to pick up the little pink swaddled baby girl and bring her over to the window for her grandma to see. Grandma seemed especially tickled to find out she had a granddaughter. She waved her hand to the newborn baby girl, blowing her a kiss. She told her not to worry, “Nana” would be back soon to see her.
Nurse Bradley picks up her purse at the nurse’s station and walks over to the time clock. She runs it through and then returns the card to its slot with the others. She has been clocking in and out at this hospital for twenty-three years now. She presses the button for the elevator, waiting patiently for the doors to open.
She is startled to see the same petite woman who'd visited the nursery earlier now standing in the elevator. She gets on and pushes the button for ground floor. Why is this woman still in the hospital? Nurse Bradley pulls her sweater a bit tighter around her as the hair on the back of her neck stands on end.
Book #2 is here!!
Want to find out what happens? Check out Books #2 in this Series entitled, “Shadows and Dreams.”