60 -The Clinic-1

(Elara)

Days turned into weeks, into months, into years. But in reality, it might have been hours.

I felt like a shell of a person, burying myself in work, but I never felt fully here.

“How is he?” Kae tugged at a curl, not bothering to knock on the office door, his office door.

“The same,” I said, nothing new.

Stable, unchanging, but at least he wasn’t worse. Not yet. It was painful to be away fr