Free Finding Love (A Mill Creek Crossing Romance) by Angelina Rose Page B

arms. He put her on the carpeted floor and immediately began infant CPR.
     
    “Amelia, call 911 for me, okay?” he said as he continued. She was frozen in place for a moment before she ran to retrieve her cell phone.
     
    “Yes. We need help. A baby has stopped breathing. She’s turning blue. Five fifty four Sycamore Street,” Amelia said into the phone as she sobbed. Clay continued his work, using two fingers to do chest compressions and intermittently blowing into Olivia’s tiny mouth.
     
    It seemed to take hours for the ambulance to arrive, but Amelia knew it was just a few minutes. As they pulled into the driveway, Olivia coughed and took a big breath in. She looked around confused, and then began to cry. Amelia thought this was the sweetest sound she’d ever heard.
     
    “She’s breathing! She’s breathing!” Amelia shouted as tears ran down her face.
     
    The EMTs came into the room and started to assess her as Clay briefed them on what had happened and backed up to give them room.
     
    “Oh, my God! What’s going on?” Christy screamed as she ran through the front door and over to Olivia. “That’s my baby!”
     
    “Christy, stand back and let them look at her,” Clay said as he pulled her back. “She stopped breathing and turned blue.”
     
    “Clay did CPR on her and she came back to us,” Amelia said through tears as she put her arm around Christy. “Has this ever happened before?”
     
    “No. Never. Is she going to be okay?” she asked an EMT as he stood up.
     
    “Her vitals look good, but we need to take her to the hospital so the doctors can see why she stopped breathing. She seems to be responsive, so that’s a good sign. Do you want to ride with us?”
     
    “Yes. Please,” Christy followed them out the door and into the ambulance as Amelia yelled out she and Clay would soon follow.
     
    Amelia turned to Clay and threw her arms around his neck. “Thank you, thank you, thank you…” she whispered through sobs. “You saved her life. How did you know what to do?” she asked pulling back to look at him. He slid his hands around her waist.
     
    “Well, before chef school, I went to EMT training for awhile. It’s come in handy a few times over the years,” he said softly.
     
    “I don’t know how I will ever repay you.”
     
    “I do.”
     
    “How?”
     
    “Go on a real date with me. After Olivia is better and this has settled down, let me take you out somewhere special.”
     
    “Deal,” she said with a slight smile. “We’d better get going.”
     
    They loaded up in Clay’s car and headed for the hospital, each with hope for a new future.
     
     

Chapter 12
     
    After a long day at the hospital, it was determined Olivia had a form of sleep apnea and would require careful monitoring and follow up. Her doctor wanted to continue monitoring her at the hospital for another twenty-four hours, so Clay and Amelia headed home around dinner time.
     
    “I called Gracie, and the kids were begging to sleep over, so I said yes. I think Gracie was more excited than they were,” Clay said with a laugh as they walked into Amelia’s house.
     
    Amelia fell like a lump onto the sofa. “I’m glad they’re having fun. Gracie is so funny, and I bet they are loving being around the kids too.”
     
    “Tired?”
     
    “Yes, and it’s not even six o’clock yet,” Amelia said laughing. “Getting old, I guess.”
     
    “Nah. I think you deserve to be tired. That was a mentally exhausting day, but I’m glad we were here when it happened. If she’d have been upstairs alone…”
     
    “I can’t even think about that. It terrifies me,” she said softly. Clay sat down beside her and put his arm around her.
     
    “Thanks for coming with me to the hospital. I couldn’t have done that alone.”
     
    “I wouldn’t have gone anywhere else. You needed me, and I wanted to be there. I love that little baby too.”
     
    “I honestly don’t know how you do it.”
     
    “Do