Chapter 59
Mac did as she had been asked, and as soon as the girl finished, she whipped off the cape and headed for the door. Having been tucked deep in the spa since early that morning, Mac had no idea that the weather had turned bad. She sighed, 'Well, at least her hair was already wet and she would not be ruining her new do!' Dashing to the gold car, she got in and headed to the base. The wind was turning violent as she made the twenty-five minute drive. Because of that, she knew it was going to take her longer than they had clocked it when the mission first began.
She swerved the car from side to side trying to avoid the debris in the road and then remembered to call AJ. Dialing his number as she drove, she waited for him to answer…
Removing the phone from his slacks' pocket, AJ flipped it open, "Hello?"
"AJ…its time! I got the call!"
"Sarah, is that you?" he yelled into the phone. He could hear thunder and pouring rain hitting the car.
"AJ, the clinic called! We're in labor, the baby is coming!"
"Sarah, I'm not picking you up. It sounds like you're in a storm. Say again," stressed AJ. All he got that time were the words clinic and baby, but it was enough for him to know that now was the time they had been waiting for.
The wind blew a mailbox right out of the ground near her, the post and all, driving it into her windshield. Mac screamed and swerved the car to the left but it was to late..."AJJJJJJJJ!"
AJ's blood ran cold. Though the phone he could hear tires squealing and Sarah calling out his name. Then there was a loud crash. After that everything was silent, way too silent.
He took off running, knowing there would be a taxi service in front of the Country Club. AJ had to get to Sarah fast. He didn't know how badly she was hurt but he intended to find out. 'Please, oh please, let her have lived through that crash!' was the only thought that ran through his mind as he raced to the scene of the accident.
Following the main road to the clinic, AJ encouraged the cab driver to hurry that was until he saw something that made him yell at the man to stop! Glaring at the man in the back of his cab, the driver stopped the car and AJ jumped out. There was a wrecker and they were pulling a crumpled golden Mercedes out of the ditch on the side of the road.
His heart sank at the sight of the car, 'God! Could Mac have lived through that?' he thought as he told the cab driver to floor it.
Running into the clinic, soaking wet, AJ ran up to the information desk and asked, "I am looking for my wife that would have just been brought in. She was on her way to maternity, but had an accident on the way. Her name is Sarah Bayer. Could you please check and see where she is for me?" While he waited for her to look up the information, he prayed that Sarah would be alive and safe.
"Sir, she is on the surgical floor, take the elevator up to three," the woman told him.
Not bothering to wait for the elevator, AJ ran up the three flights of stairs. Once there, he hurried to the surgical desk catching a heavy nurse going by. "I am AJ Bayer and my wife, Sarah, was just brought in. I need to know how she is."
"I will tell her doctor you are here, Mr. Bayer. I am sure that he will be out to talk to you in just a moment. Please have a seat in the waiting area directly behind you." said the nurse kindly.
A few minutes later a doctor approached AJ, "Mr. Bayer?"
"Lieutenant Bayer, actually doctor," while he had been waiting AJ remembered his cover.
"Lieutenant then, you wife is in need of immediate surgery, I need you to sign these consent forms."
AJ took the forms and the pen and sat down. Thoughts raced through his head, first that he didn't have the right to sign the forms, he wasn't Sarah's husband. Hell! He wasn't even a relative! Second, that he could go to jail for signing these forms, because they would be a forgery, then he stopped counting as he saw Sarah's face before him. Without another thought he signed the consent forms and handed them back to the doctor. "Can I see her just a moment before surgery?" he asked.
To be continued….