Chapter 103: After the Storm

*Two Months Later*

TESSA

I was nervous. It was the first time in a long while that I had agreed to go out for dinner with my friends, fully aware that Rhys would be there. I hadn’t seen him in nearly two months.

In the first week after I left the hospital, he had insisted on staying around to take care of me, but I didn’t let him. I knew that putting some distance between us was the best thing for