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home.”
     
    This didn’t seem to faze Max.
     
    “Look, we’ll fly you home, but this puts your position with Senticore in serious jeopardy.”
     
    “I don’t care! Just fly me home!”
     
    “You know what? I don’t like your attitude. Fly back tonight, collect your things out of your office. I think our partnership is null and void.”
     
    Brant slammed the phone down on the receiver. He was just fired, but he didn’t care. He had to get home to Holly. He felt absolutely horrible being on the other side of the world when she was going through something so horrible and painful. He should have never come. It was a mistake. A huge mistake.
     
    If the flight to Hong Kong was long, the flight back to the U.S. seemed to last a lifetime. The following morning, after leaving the airport, Brant hailed a cab and went straight to St. Mercy’s where a nurse escorted him to Holly’s room.
     
    She was laying in her hospital bed looking very weak and pale. As he watched her sleep, his guilt morphed into something deeper, something darker. He felt the feelings of failure start to burgeon from his core.
     
    He had let her down.
     
    Brant touched her hand ever so gently, and she stirred from her nap.
     
    “Oh, Brant…”
     
    “I’m here…”
     
    “How though? You’re supposed to be in Hong Kong.”
     
    “You’re more important.”
     
    Holly smiled weakly as she nodded back to sleep. Behind Brant a doctor came in the room with a clipboard.
     
    “Are you Mr. Edgemont?”
     
    “Yes,” replied Brant.
     
    “I’m Dr. Carter. Your wife suffered a miscarriage, but I’m afraid it’s a little worse than that. We tried to stop the bleeding, but she is hemorrhaging. We need to perform a partial hysterectomy. There’s no time. We need to get her into surgery.”
     
    The depression that had taken over Brant moments earlier had now gripped hold of his soul. Holly would not be able to have any more children. Brant whole-heartedly believed that he could have prevented this if he had payed more attention to his wife. She was so excited for another baby, too. The news broke his heart.
     
    “Do whatever you have to do to save her,” Brant told the doctor as tears began to pool in his eyes.
     
    “After the operation, I will keep her for a few days for observation.”
     
    Brant reached out for the doctor’s hand, and he shook it, barely able to hold his composure together. After the doctor left, Brant fell into the arm chair that sat beside Holly’s hospital bed until the orderlies wheeled her out to surgery. As his head fell into his hands, he could get no lower. He had reached the depths of his despair.
     
    Holly returned home seven days after she was initially rushed to the hospital when Marv found her unconscious and hemorrhaging. Brant hadn’t said much to her, and she was concerned. He had an unhealthy look about him. He wasn’t sleeping, barely eating, and he hadn’t been to work since returning home from Hong Kong. She was still weak, but she was not stupid. She saw him combing the wanted ads every day. She didn’t want to say anything, because she had a feeling that it would only add to his stress.
     
    Then one day, he just didn’t come home. Frantic with worry, Holly called his mother in Colorado. Doris explained to Holly how concerned she was over Brant. He was depressed and isolating himself. Holly became angry because Brant wasn’t the only one going through this crisis. Families are supposed to stick together. The final straw that broke the camel’s back occurred when Doris told Holly, “Please take care of my boy.”
     
    Holly simply replied, “Doris, I’ve had a miscarriage, emergency surgery, and I have children to look after. You don’t abandon your family.”
     
    Holly hung up and never looked back. When Brant tried to return the following week, he tried to explain that he had been looking for work. But without a phone call, a note, or any evidence that he was even alive for a