Chapter 67.

After I had seen Izzy and Dante, I went straight to Leo’s room, and I didn’t leave all night. I had pushed the small armchair that was in the corner of his room and positioned it right next to his bed. The nurses made sure I ate, kept telling me to be positive that he’d make a full and healthy recovery and at some point whilst I slept, they had draped a woollen blanket over me.

I held his hand, I kissed his cheeks and his forehead, and ran my fingers though his now fresh and clean hair. I kept whispering in his ear that I loved him and that we were all safe, whether he could hear me or not, It was the only thing I could do to not fall apart every time I looked so longingly at his face.

I had only left him this morning to take a shower and change into another set of fresh clothes that the omega’s kindly set out on my bed. Whatever they used to wash the clothes with, smelt of Lavender and Pine, like a blossoming meadow in the summer. I inhaled both the top and shorts before I put them o