It was as if a ton of bricks had just landed on top of her. She couldn't breathe, couldn't move, couldn't even damn well lift her hand to wipe the tears that suddenly streamed down her face. A baby girl. Her baby girl. Oh Merlin not her baby! Why hadn't she listened to Justin? Why had she insisted...
A long wail left her as she almost crumbled, the pain in her chest unbearable. She wanted to go back to sleep, to whatever state of darkness she'd been in before, anything other than the pain she was in now.