False Victory

VANESSA

I couldn’t stop smiling. My heart was practically doing flips in my chest as the car pulled up in front of the hospital. This was it. The moment I’d been waiting for, praying for, thinking about day and night. Dominic was awake. Daphne’s little outburst earlier wasn’t just anger. It was fear. She slipped up, and I caught her.

Now it was my turn.

Beatrice stepped out of the car beside me, h