"Wayne Bailey, hold her."
"She is sick, put her back!"
"It's okay, just holding her for a moment..."
"I fear I'm too rough." Wayne Bailey's gaze was complex, happiness had come too swiftly!
"Ivy, do you want Daddy to hold you?" Anna Jadwin asked gently.
Ivy Bailey's blue eyes were clear and boundless, wandering as she looked at Wayne Bailey and then at Anna Jadwin, her little hand clutching Mommy's clothes, comfortably squinting her tiny eyes.
She was running a high fever, her body weak, seemingly lacking even the strength to cry or smile.
Anna Jadwin touched her forehead to Ivy's to gauge her temperature, her heart aching: "Wayne Bailey, you know that The Baileys' children all have a genetic illness, right? Ivy was frail from birth, she has been through many injections, and almost every day she's undergoing treatment... Raphael said only a Holy water baptism could cure her."
Wayne Bailey's voice was hoarse: "Did you bring her back for the Holy water baptism?"
"Yes..."