Could he be in trouble now? Were officers holding him? Questioning him? Preparing to arrest him? Sandra’s imagination spun uncontrollably, filling in silence with worst-case scenarios. The possibility that he was suffering somewhere nearby made her stomach twist into painful knots.
Could he be a threat to her or to their baby? The idea struck her again like sharp and blinding lightning. Should she have pressed him more about that name change? Why hadn’t she? She looked at her baby, then at the nurses’ guarded faces. Nothing in the room reassured her anymore.