Chapter 43

Adam escorts me back to Leah’s hospital room. He closes the door behind me and the other guards.

I try her cell phone.

Adam rings her too.

Nothing.

“She may have the volume off. I had her put it on silent in case you…” he trails off.

In case I tried to bother her, he implies.

I growl.

“Her clothes are here, Adam.” I point to the neatly folded pants and shirt. The shirt still has splatters of blood on it from when she’d been coughing. “If she was going to leave, she would’ve changed and put on shoes.”

“Is it possible she’s still on the grounds?” one of the guards suggests. “Maybe she was hungry or got lost or maybe she just didn’t feel like being cooped up alone in here. It’s not uncommon for patients to wander.”

Adam doesn’t look convinced though. Neither am I.

movements on the feed.” He looks at the second guard, a slightly shorter, wide-shouldered

“Yes sir.”

and the moon is half full. I still hold the flowers and I don’t know what

ck is she?”

not yelling or demanding or screaming.

just want

reflection in the windows. Adam shakes his head. “She’s dying, Aaron. Even with the treatments, we don’t have a lot

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LEAH

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truck and buckles

I’m not an invalid.’

my curls, then tucks it behind my ear. “I know. I

small act. A chivalrous one.

always bad with Aaron, they were never really

get

his way to open a

the door yet.

are you doing?” I ask

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