No Half Measures

VANCE’S POV

Rowan sleeps for an hour in the hospital chair beside Roland’s bed with her hand wrapped around his on the blanket and her face finally, mercifully slack in a way that tells me her body has overruled her brain and forced a shutdown.

I watch her for a while. The rise and fall of her breathing, the way her fingers stay curled around Roland’s even in sleep, the smudge of dried blood she m