Chapter 177: Chapter 177: NO EXCUSE TO SLACK OFF: FLYNN

When it came time to call Valerie's parents I felt overwhelmingly nervous. After all, she'd been put at risk by having my baby. The moment I told her mom what had happened she began to cry and passed me to Gordon before I'd even told her how they were doing.

It must have been a bittersweet moment for her, but a scary one as well, knowing that Valerie had been through all of that. I supposed her mom still saw her a young girl. But I hadn't forgotten her age, because it was difficult to accept that Val was barely twenty years old, with the mature head on her shoulders and all the stuff she'd faced in her life.

Lee called Kayden to tell him, and forty-five minutes later, all three arrived in a shocked and worried state at the hospital. Valerie had woken up again, and wasn't exactly pain-free, but put on a brave face for the time her family visited her.