Chapter 2: Twenty-Seven Seconds
My hands wouldn't stop shaking.
I picked the phone back up.
Watched it again.
Twenty-seven seconds.
That was all it took to destroy everything I thought I knew about my husband.
The video was from a hospital corridor camera.
The timestamp read three days earlier — the night I was unconscious.
Ryan was there.
Standing outside the NICU.
He wasn't crying.
He wasn't praying.
He was on his phone, calm and quiet, and then a nurse approached him and said something.
He nodded.
And then he walked away.
He just...
walked away.
I pressed my fist against my mouth to keep from making a sound.
Because in the next frame, two staff members rushed into the NICU.
And they didn't come back out with good news.
I was still staring at the screen when the door opened.
Ryan stepped back in, two coffees in hand, smiling softly.
"You look pale," he said.
"Are you feeling okay?"
I looked up at him.
"I'm fine," I heard myself say.
"Just tired."
He sat down.
Reached for my hand again.
And I let him take it.
Because I needed him to believe I didn't know.
Not yet.
Then my phone buzzed.
A message from an unknown number.
Four words.
*"He made the call."*
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What call?
And who sent that message?
What really happened inside that NICU the night I was unconscious?
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