Chapter 128

GIDEON

The clock on the wall mocked me with every tick. Each second stretched, an eternity between one heartbeat and the next. I sat where I had been since they sedated her, hunched forward in the stiff hospital chair, her fragile hand cradled in mine like it was the last thread holding me to the earth.

It had been hours. The room was too quiet now, the earlier panic a violent echo replaying i