Saving Cassie (Fairfield Corners) (18 page)

Doc hurries in, carrying
his medical bag.  “I’m getting too old for house calls, Cassie.  Tell this
little one to cool it!”

“Oh believe me, I am.  Am
I losing the baby Doc?”

“Are you having any
bleeding along with the cramping?”

“I don’t know, I’ve been
too scared to check.”  I am hanging onto Logan’s hand for dear life, willing
the baby to be fine.

He checks me over.  “Everything
looks fine, but better to be safe than sorry.  I’m going to call an ambulance
and you are going to the hospital for some tests.”

Two hours later I am in a
private room with Logan, James, Marie, Adam, and Ragan waiting for Doc to give
us the results of all the tests.  Logan looks into my eyes and tells me
everything will be OK, Gram told him it would be.  Doc comes in, smiling.  That’s
a good sign.  “Looks like you’re little one is tough, everything looks good.  But,
this was a warning.  I’m afraid you are on strict bed rest for the duration of
this pregnancy.  No work whatsoever!  I mean it, Cassie.  You make sure she
stays in bed Logan.”

“But, we’re getting
married next week.  Can I at least walk down the aisle?”

“You can get married but
you will have to do it from your bed.  When I say bed rest I mean bed rest.  The
only time you should be out of bed is to use the bathroom.”

“We’ll make sure she stays
put Doc.”  Logan is wiping the tears from my face.  “See, your Gram was right. 
Everything will be OK,” he whispers as he holds me close.

“I’m going to get the
discharge paperwork going.  You should be out of here in about an hour.”

Logan pulls a chair up
next to the bed and grabs my hand.  “I think you scared ten years off my life, Darlin’.
 Please don’t do that again.”

“I was so scared Logan.  I
thought I was losing the baby.”

Logan lifts my hand and
kisses it.  “This baby will be fine.  It’s meant to be.”

James comes over to the
bed.  “I’m so glad, Reggie.  Marie and I will get the wedding plans changed to
after your due date.”

“You will not!  I am
getting married next week even if I have to do it from my bed.  I don’t want to
wait any longer to be married to Logan than I have to.”

A week later we’re
married, with most of the town watching via the internet.  Adam was Logan’s
best man and Ragan was my maid of honor.  James and Marie were there along with
Olivia.  Adam and Ragan couldn’t take their eyes off each other the whole time,
wonder how long it will be before there’s another wedding?

I am following Doc’s
instructions to the letter, and I’m going stir crazy.  I’m keeping up on the
renovation at the bookstore via the internet and they should be opening the
coffee bar within the next two weeks.

Logan went back to work
full time today, but he’s been stopping at home almost every hour.  I’m sure
he’s not getting much done.  Marie spends most days with me, cleaning the house
and getting the baby’s room ready.  Ragan is here most days too, just trying to
keep my spirits up.

The latest ultrasound
confirms what I have thought all along, it’s a girl!  We are going to name her
Violet after Gram.

One month after the scare
Violet gave us, Adam got an emergency phone call from Georgia and he took off
without even saying goodbye.  He called Logan from the airport, letting him
know what was going on.  Adam’s ex was killed in a car accident and he needed
to go pick up his daughter.

The next day, Ragan is
gone.  She left in the middle of the night with no explanation.  I wonder what
happened between her and Adam.  Adam was devastated when he got back with his
daughter and found that Ragan had gone without saying goodbye.  He’s trying to
be upbeat for Jenna’s sake but you can see he’s heartbroken.  Poor Jenna is so
sad, she hasn’t spoken since the accident.  Adam has taken her to every
specialist within 500 miles. They all tell him that she is fine physically and
will talk when she’s ready.  It’s a good thing he had already decided to stop
touring, Jenna needs him so much right now.  I love it when he brings her to
see me.  I can understand how she feels since I lost my mother at such a young
age.  Adam is still planning on making Fairfield Corners his full-time home,
building a house about 15 minutes south of town.  I’m sorry that things didn’t
work out between him and Ragan, I thought they were perfect for each other.

Three months later Violet
decides it’s time to make her grand entrance, almost four weeks early.  Marie
and I are at the hospital in Fort Wayne waiting for Logan and James, “Is he
here yet? God, he better hurry up or he’s going to miss it!”

“No not yet.  He’s trying
to get here as fast as he can but it’s really foggy out there, he can’t drive
as fast as he wants to.”

Another contraction,
they’re getting closer, it’s almost time.  He’d better hurry, this baby is
ready to be born any minute!

The door opens and James
walks in carrying a giant teddy bear.  Leave it James to go overboard.

The door opens again and
there he is, finally!  The love of my life…“OK, Darlin’, let’s do this.  I want
to meet this little one we created.”

An hour later I am holding
our miracle baby in my arms, Logan is asleep in the recliner next to me holding
my hand, the gold of his wedding band glinting in the light.  I think back to
everything we went through to get to this point.  My heart skips a beat when I
think of how close I came to losing Logan and then to losing Violet.  I send up
a prayer of thanks to whoever it was that put Logan into my life and made it
his destiny to save me.

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