Chapter 131

SIENNA

The hospital discharge papers felt too light for the weight they carried.

Two weeks. That’s how long I’d been here, existing in a place that smelled like antiseptic and false hope, the air too clean to be real. My body had healed enough to pass whatever checklist they had, but my head? That was another story.

The nightmares still came, clawing at me the moment my eyes closed. The smell o