Chapter 96:

Kira’s POV:

The blood test was the first thing she ordered. It was standard procedure, of course, and Dr. Dalton had always been thorough. After years of treating me, after witnessing every flu, every scar, every haunting flare-up of the condition I thought I’d buried under ironclad control, she still looked at me like I was that same shivering eight-year-old girl who used to flinch at needles. No