Silent Devotion

***Milena***

I grabbed my tote bag and followed Rafael into the elevator, finally bidding farewell to this hospital, the braces, and the bandage. Besides the stitches at the corner of my head, I was as healthy as a horse.

I should have been discharged before today, but I'd ended up spending an entire week in the hospital because a certain Rafael Valenti wasn't convinced I was well enough to go hom