Losing Eva (The Eva Series Book 2) Read Free

were fifteen years old.
    But now, her whole world felt as if it were crashing in, and there was no way to stop it. The baby isn’t moving, oh God! The baby isn’t moving!
    She looked around and saw a plastic box by her side.
    She pushed the red nurses call button frantically, terrified to be alone, and desperate for answers. I need Adam! I need someone!
    “Yes, may I help you?” a distant voice came from nowhere, a subtle clicking sound accompanying it.
    “Yes, I need my husband. Where is he? How is my baby?” Brynn said in one breath, talking to the air. She was lost. She needed Adam.
    “We’ll be right there,” the voice said.
    “Okay,” she said weakly, to no one. She hated to be alone. What happened?
    The moment came flooding back to her, almost overtaking her. Brynn remembered, and then her heart started to race. The woman! That woman who was at my front door… the woman who called me Eva!
    The woman looked so much like Brynn—small, petite, with dark, pretty features, and big brown eyes that seemed too big for her face. She could have been Brynn’s sister, only she wasn’t. The woman said she was Brynn’s Momma.
    Brynn hadn’t even gotten her name.
    Could it really be my Mother? Why would she come into my life now, when I’m finally happy, when I have finally found some peace? Why would she bother to show up now when my life with Adam is starting to be really nice? Brynn’s head was swimming with questions. How did my Mother even find me?
    It didn’t make sense. And then Brynn realized that the woman must have found her because years earlier, Brynn had put her name in with the adoption agency. She always thought that she wanted to connect with her parents someday, but now that the day had come, she wasn’t as sure.
    But why wouldn’t someone have called her to give her some warning? How did this woman just show up at her door? It was the moment that Brynn had always dreamt about, her Mother coming to find her.
    She thought back to when she was a little girl, kneeling beside her bed, earnestly folding her hands to pray. Dear God, please help my real Mommy to find me and take me and my Momma away from Daddy so he can’t hurt me anymore.” Brynn thought that her real Mommy would rescue her from Thomas’ fist and feet, and protect her from his rage. Tiny brown-eyed Brynn, with her long hair and high-pitched little girl voice, prayed night after night to be saved.
    Thomas blamed her for stealing all of Rose’s love so that there was nothing left for him. Young Brynn would pray desperately that her birth Mommy would take her away. But she never came. So why now? Why did she show up now? It didn’t make sense.
    Brynn thought about the woman’s face, even though she had only seen it for a fraction of a second. Brynn could tell that she had been beautiful at one time, but the beauty looked like it had slowly been erased. The woman looked like the shadow of someone else, someone that Brynn didn’t know.
    The nurse was taking so long, and Brynn was worried about the baby. She saw that she had a strap, with what looked like a monitor of some sort, around her belly. And the machine that the strap was connected to had a nice steady green line on it that ran across the screen at a consistent pace, making the same up and down lines every time it went across. Brynn watched the monitor for a while, and that made her feel better. It was the same type of monitor she use to stare at as she sat by Rose’s bedside for hours.
    Brynn heard a noise, and turned from the monitor to see Adam racing into the room. His thick brown hair was disheveled, and his beautiful blue eyes the color of the sea, wide with distress. “Brynn, you’re awake!” he said, his voice full of concern. Brynn never tired of hearing him talk. She loved his voice and everything about him. To think that she nearly lost him forever still gravely chilled her. Living life without him in it for those long months was the worst time of her life. Even