Numb to the bone, I hurried over to kneel beside her. “I’m sorry.” Wrapping my arms around her shoulders, I hugged her tightly. “I’m so sorry.” She turned her face into my neck and cried hard and ugly, shaking so badly that I was afraid she was going to have a seizure. “Make him come back,” she begged, wrapping her arms around her stomach. “Please! I need him.” Me too… “Shh.”
