Shattered Silence

~VALERIE POV~

The world had shrunk to the size of a hospital room.

White walls. The steady beeping of the heart monitor. The faint antiseptic sting in the air.

That was it. That was my world now.

I lay on the bed, curled slightly to one side, the blanket tucked around me. My hands kept drifting to my stomach out of habit, brushing over the gown, searching for something that wasn’t there anymore. E