Bella looks like she's hearing about Evan's accident all over again…that same dazed, confused look in her eyes as her carefully reconstructed world crumbles down around her.
I'm so focused on watching her and making sure she's okay, that everything that is being said is muffled and only bits and pieces are coming through.
Baby girl…
Mother named Evan as the father…
Letter explaining everything left in the mother's room along with legal papers naming Bella the child's guardian…
Bella's struggling to find a way to understand it all, trying to convince herself it's some sort of mistake as she tries to explain to them that they must be mistaken or that someone is playing a sick joke on her…that it's not possible for Evan to have a child because he was married to her…that he's gone.
They double check that Evan was Bella's husband..offering his full name and date of birth as confirmation.
When all the information matches up, they explain that there has been no mistake.
They offer me the letter to read, show me the guardianship papers, hoping that I can find some way to make her understand and offer us some time to absorb everything before they bring us to see the baby.
And just like that…after setting off a clusterfuck of a grenade in our lives, after destroying everything I ever thought to be true about my brother, and tearing every ounce of happiness that Bella had managed to rebuild to shreds… they leave us in this godforsaken room, the both of us utterly lost as to what we're supposed to do now.
A/N: So…we're back to our regularly scheduled once a week updates (at least until June 1) and we're up to the part that everyone has been waiting for…you'll be getting through what would be chapter 35 of LtLG today, so we've got four more chapters before we're done for the day.