Don’t Let Him

***Hazel***

It felt like I was trapped inside someone else’s nightmare.

Like if I blinked hard enough, I would wake up in our bed, Victor would be beside me, breathing softly, his arm heavy around my waist. Like this hospital smell—bleach and fear and cold—would dissolve into nothing. Like his blood wasn’t still staining my hands no matter how many times I scrubbed my hands down my thighs.

But th