“Do I have an option? If I don’t allow her to see Tina she can contest my rights in justice.”

            “Bette, give her some credit. She left her children in Canada to be here for Tina. And we don’t know what they talked, but Tina seemed calmer after her talk with Caroline.”

            “Okay.”

            “And Alice wants to know who will be sleeping here. They only allow one person.”

            “Tell Alice and Caroline that I will be sleeping here all nights.”

———————————————————————————————-

            Three days later, Tina was still in coma, but according to Dr. Davenport she was getting better of her encephalopathy. Bette fell in some kind of routine. She would work and research all day in her laptop, she would accompanied the work of the nurses in Tina asking about any small detail of her treatment. She would meet Dr. Davenport and ask her another bunch of questions. The girls would visit her, offering their support. Caroline would come and remain praying, they would exchange the minimum of conversation possible. Then she would leave Alice and Caroline with Tina to go to the house, to take a bath and see Angelica. With lucky, Kit would force her to eat something before her return to the hospital for the night.  

            That night she left Alice with Tina while she went look for Dr. Davenport to ask her questions of the day. She found Dr. Davenport in the hall of the floor near of the lifts instead her office.

“Here you are Bette. I was missing the interrogation of the day. Can we take it into the cafeteria? One day without any food is too much for me.”

“Are you without eating for one day now?”

“No, I ate dinner two hours ago. Anyway I’m hungry. You didn’t eat anything since last night. The nurses told me.”

“Don’t they have enough work? How can they notice something like that?”

“Believe me, Tina’s room is the one that rises more attention in the unity. Alice is let’s say I piece of work, she has a humor that helps everyone there. She helped Tina a lot. And you you are almost harassing the nurses no one had ever seen an ex-wife so dedicated.” Dr. Davenport noticed the embarrassed look of Bette and resolved not pushing her so hard. They arrived the cafeteria and ordered their food. Bette was playing with her fork more than eating.