Elisa was almost completely bent in half from the pain, and it was something entirely different from anything she had experienced. It felt as if someone was jabbing her with a red-hot poker.
This was nothing like what those damn baby books had described. Hell, she'd just started taking Lamaze classes under protest because she KNEW how to breath damn it, but even the overly chipper woman who taught the class had prepared her for this.
Matt turned into the private parking area of the Aerie building garage, the bump and bounce for the too-fast entrance onto the ramp causing the pain to intensify for a moment. Instead of going to the actual parking area, Matt all but skid to a stop in the "deliveries only" area outside of the express elevator bank that was reserved for the Xanatos family use only.
There, he was met by Doctor James, the Doc's very pregnant wife Kiersten, and the feisty redheaded Margaret.
The three of them all but leapt on the car as soon as it stopped, Margaret beating them all to fling the door open. In a heartbeat, she had climbed into the back seat with Elisa, asking questions and checking Elisa's pulse.
Doctor James began shouting orders at both Matt and Travis on how to assist them in getting her from the car and onto the stretcher.
Elisa cried out as she was basically slid out of the car and lifted onto the stretcher.
Once she was free, the three medical staff and the two detectives, all ran forward into the blessedly oversized express elevator.
No one bothered to move the car or close its doors.
No one saw the pool of blood in the back seat…