Justice and Confessions

Julia — First-Person POV

Three days after the proposal, Alan could sit upright without assistance.

He made it sound like a minor administrative update — mentioned it the way he mentioned everything he considered beneath acknowledgment, with the flat brevity of someone who had decided the fact didn't warrant commentary. I sat beside his hospital bed and watched him push himself upright and kept my expression neutral and felt the terror of the last seventy-two hours move through me one final time