Chapter 220

GIDEON

I didn’t bother knocking.

The moment I reached the hospital room and saw the empty bed—the pulled-out IV, the missing bag, the cold dent on the pillow where her head should’ve been—

Something inside me snapped so fast it felt like bone giving way.

Celine shot up from the chair with a startled gasp. “Gideon—wait—”

“Where is she?” My voice was too calm. Too steady. The kind of calm that