Chapter 76

**Ronan**

Sloane was asleep again when I checked on her. Rain pressed steadily against the windows, making the air cooler. She looked smaller in the clean sheets, hair fanned across the pillow, mouth parted just enough to steal my breath every time I looked. There was colour in her cheeks now, a pulse where before there had only been silence. It should have been enough to keep me still. It wasn’t.