It was now a waiting game. All of them were in the NNICU waiting area when they brought Hyden in. He was a wreck, as was Daniel.
Within minutes, the head neonatal doctor in charge of the case walked in and motioned for them to have a seat. He needed to go over some particulars with Patrick's condition.
"I won't lie to you and tell you everything's going to be okay because, number one, we don't know. The doctor that was taking care of him and delivered him at the ranch—I believe his name is Lex—did everything that he could possibly do to save this child's life. If it hadn't been for him, you'd be making arrangements for a funeral."
"But he's not out of the woods yet. He's going to be here for probably a month or so until his lungs can develop enough, even though he was full-term. What has me worried most of all is a flutter within his heart. I know that he is hybrid and I don't know a whole lot about hybrids."
