Chapter 194

Lukas

Three weeks. For three goddamn weeks, I’ve been sitting in this hospital chair, watching Valerie fight to recover. The initial surgery lasted eleven hours. The doctors rebuilt her shattered legs with pins, rods, and screws, but they couldn’t make any promises about whether she’d walk again.

I haven’t left her side except when forced to by hospital staff.

“You should go home, get some real sl