Chapter 53

SIENNA

The hours crawled by, each ticking second intensifying the knot of anticipation in my stomach. The sterile hospital room felt suffocating, its white walls seemingly closing in on me as the silence lingered. Ten hours had passed since the surgery commenced, and the absence of news from the medical team only fueled the whirlwind of anxiety within me.

I paced the room, the cool linoleum beneat