Chapter 50: Don’t stop

I walk out of her hospital room, Leopold is waiting for me outside. My eyes are reddened and swollen from all the crying. He puts his arm around me and kisses my forehead gently without saying a word. We then start to walk to the elevators. When we cross the lobby, the nurses try to get a good look at me but Leopold holds me even closer to his body to block the view from them. We walk rapidly towards the car and then drive away. I can see now that Leopold was nervous too, he was just pretending to be chill.

“Are you all right?” He asks me once we are far from the hospital and he seems to relax again.

I nod with my head.

“Aubrey, I’m driving, I can’t look at you, so I’m going to need a verbal response,” he says without taking his eyes