The Perfect Match

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Genres: Fiction
Tubes, monitors, and IV lines dwarfed the tiny forms of Jordan and Jeffrey Simmons. He watched their chests rising and falling with the life-support systems, and the center of his throat felt raw and thick.
Sighing, he shuffled up to the nurses’ station. Sandra, one of his favorite church members, sat at the desk, a pen shoved above her ear, working on the computer. “Hey, there,” he said softly.
She looked up and smiled. “What are you doing out of bed?”
“Can’t sleep.”
“Are you in pain?”
He didn
...’t quite know how to answer that question. His shoulder ached as if someone had taken a sledgehammer to it, but that pain couldn’t touch the gaping wound in his heart. It almost eased his inner agony every time his shoulder spasmed. “Where’s Angelica?”
Sandra nodded, as if understanding his artful dodging. “Down the hall. In pediatrics.”
Dan pushed his IV pole ahead of him as he strode down the hall to the pediatric wing. Please let her be okay. The four small rooms that made up the pediatric corner of the rural hospital smelled strongly of cleanser, cotton, and medicines.
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