(Chase)They discharge me with a list of instructions I actually intend to follow this time.Sleep. Eat. Slow down. See someone about the panic.I should go home.Natasha's there.Lily's there.Everything I want is finally in one place, and I should go straight to it.Instead, the next morning, I go back to find the doctor who told me I wasn't dying.I tell myself it's to say thank you.That's half of it.The other half is that I haven't been able to stop seeing her face since I came to.Not for any reason a married man should be careful about.Something older than that.Hannah was a long time ago.My first year at college, when I was still cobbled together from pure arrogance and the belief the world owed me something.We didn't end well.I don't even remember it being a decision.I wouldn’t commit, I treated her like an afterthought and then it was just over.The way things end when you're young and stupid and certain there's all the time in the world.She's not on the ward.The nur
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