While I Lost Everything, He Saved Her Dog

The day I hemorrhaged and lost the baby, my parents drove through a downpour to reach me.

They never made it.

There was a chain collision on the road, and by the time the ambulance got them to the Family's clinic, I was already on the table, fighting to stay alive.

A man in surgical scrubs pushed through the door with the critical-condition forms in hand, his voice low and urgent the way men in our world keep it. "Miss Falcone, your parents are gravely injured. We need a family member to sign right now."