Chapter 454

ROWAN’S POV

The corridor goes very quiet.

My next breath catches somewhere in my chest, and a cold stillness settles over me.

“What I can tell you is that today she’s better than she’s been in weeks,” he goes on, gentler. “She’s not cured. Not by any mile, but she is breathing. She’s sitting up, she’s lucid, and she’s already argued with two nurses, which I am choosing to take as a good sign. Mayb