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“You again,” a familiar voice said.
I looked up through tears. “Charlie.”
She smiled warmly. “Hey, darling. We’ve got to stop meeting like this.”
I smiled, but then I broke.
Whoosh.
Everything.
Like a dam bursting.
I couldn’t see, I couldn’t hear, I could feel nothing but the warmth of Noah’s touch leaving me as I was lowered onto a bed.
I was cold. So cold.
Something was put over my nose and mouth, and Charlie’s voice was a wobbly whisper in my ear, but all I cared about was Noah. I was looking, searching, letting my gaze desperately dart around in the hopes I could find him.
Dark green.
I found him.
Through it all, I found his eyes. As they wheeled me further away from him and into the ambulance, there was his eyes.
Beautiful.
Tortured.
But his eyes.
They were his.
They were the last thing I saw.
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
It was amazing how slowly time passed in a hospital.
I’d swear it’d been a thousand days since I’d woken up to the silent tears of my mum leaning over me, but it’d only been twenty-four hours.
Dad had sent her home not long ago to shower. And get me clean knickers, Mum had said.
Apparently, they didn’t provide those with the gowns here.
It was still visiting hours, and they’d swapped places with an angry Ash who’d made me quickly facetime Gwen as proof of life.
Gwen had insisted I was a body double, and Ash had hung up on her and glared at me before bursting into tears.
As for me, I was still trying to piece everything together.
There were a few small gaps in my memory, but apparently, getting your head smashed onto the edge of a kitchen counter was a surefire way to give you concussion. The doctor who was seeing me had said some memory loss was perfectly normal with what I’d just been through, but that it should return in time.
I would be okay if it didn’t.
“Knock knock.” Jamie pushed the door open and poked his head through the gap. “Can I come in?”
“Depends,” I said. “Is it just you?”
