“Your wife?” Jason heard a disbelieving voice ask from behind him and he turned to see Mia looking at him with her mouth agape. “You…you have a wife?”

Oh shit. Jason thought “I will talk to you later”

“It is fine. I understand” Charlotte replied in a somewhat strange tone. Jason disconnected the call to focus on Mia.

Her eyes fired at him “You are married? How? When? Did you plan to never tell us?”

“Mia…”

“What Mia? What Mia are you calling?” she asked heatedly with a sheen of tears in her eyes. “I thought you were too upset about what happened and you were probably out here doing God knows what” she flung her hands aside jerkily “And you were here talking to….” she paused as if she couldn’t even comprehend what she heard as she gave him an askance look “...your wife? Did we mean so little to you that you wouldn’t tell us something that important?”

“Mia, you know that isn’t…”

She turned abruptly and entered the hospital back. Jason saw her swiped at her face as she walked fast towards