Chapter 128

Maeve’s POV

I stood over the stove, the steam from the hot soup rising to dampen my forehead.

Aunt Clara had been complaining again—sharp, biting pains right where the surgeons had worked.

I chewed my lip, my mind racing through everything I had researched. It had been nearly three weeks.

From the research I’d done late at night, scrolling through medical sites on my phone, the pain should have s