Chapter 127: To Love You
The hospital didn't feel like a place of healing to Theo when he finally stood on his own again. It felt like a pause. A breath held too long between one catastrophe and the next.
His body was still weak. That much was impossible to ignore. Every step reminded him of where Argash's blade had landed and where exhaustion had nearly claimed him for good.
But weakness didn't matter as much as clarity, and clarity was what he had now.
Danielle walked beside him as he moved down the corridor. Not ahead or behind, it was with him.
She had refused to let him walk alone even though nurses had offered wheelchairs and aides and caution spoken in clean professional tones.
Theo had ignored all of it.
They stopped at the ward where the rescued women were kept.
It was quieter than he expected…there was no chanting or fear soaked into the walls. The sound of life returning slowly and unevenly.
