Chapter 131

“How is she?”

The doctor pulls off his gloves with a soft snap, expression carefully neutral as he turns to the man leaning in the doorway

I’m curled on my side in the massive bed, sheets pulled up to my chin, body aching in places I don’t want to think about.

My throat is raw from screaming the wrong name. My thighs are sticky. My chest feels hollowed out, like someone scooped everything out and