Chapter 317: Chapter 317: Emergency Trip Back to the Lodge

Impatiently, Jackie paced the length of the lodge’s front porch. A pair of guests who were staying in one of the cabins hurried past, bundled against the biting cold of early March. Jackie forced a cheerful smile as she greeted them, but her thoughts were on the middle-of-the-night conversation she’d had with Blake three days earlier.

“Amy started having contractions, so I rushed her to the hospital.”

“But it’s too early, isn’t it? How far along is she?”

“Thirty-three weeks,” he answered miserably. “They gave her medication to stop the contractions, but they want to keep her for a while to make sure everything’s okay.”

Even more than two thousand miles away, she heard his anguish. “Jackie, I’m terrified I’m going to lose her. Lose them both. It’s so out of my fucking control!”