The Coldest Goodbye

Valerie’s POV

The next few days were a blur.

People came. People went. Nurses. Police. Reporters. Faces I didn’t know. Faces I didn’t care to remember. They kept asking questions I didn’t want to answer. My body was already healed, but I had to stay in this wheelchair. Pretend I was still too broken to walk. The irony? I was. Just not where they thought.

Everything inside me was numb. Except my he