Xavier's pov
I felt like I was wrapped in cotton wool. Everything flowed slowly around me, the sounds came muffled, my sight was blurry.
A placental abruption.
Since Emily had come into my life, I'd done a lot of research about pregnancies, and above all about what could go wrong: the abruption of the placenta had been one of the first results, and I knew very well what kind of risk it entailed, both for the mother and for the child.
The only idea of losing Em and the baby, right now that I had just hugged them again, was… I couldn't even think about it. My brain automatically blocked and excluded certain thoughts, to keep me from sinking into madness, into pain.
I couldn't imagine how horrible, how painful it would be if I lost them, this time forever.
I wouldn't have lived: of
