Chapter 346

Dawn came slowly through the hospital windows.

It came the way dawn comes after the worst nights, no drama, no warmth. Just a gradual lightening of the grey outside the ICU glass, the world becoming visible again without promising anything about the day ahead.

Sylvie hadn't slept.

She sat in the chair by the glass, hands folded in her lap, eyes on Jonah. The curtain had come down sometime after mi