Chapter 41

Kiernan’s POV

This hospital room is unsettling. It is too white, too clean, and too quiet save for the machines.

They hum softly around her, their lights blinking with everything I’m not. Patience.

I stand at the edge of her hospital bed with my hands buried in my jacket pockets, trying not to breathe too loudly, trying not to let my heartbeat drown out the silence.

Elodie lies still under the sh