جميع فصول : الفصل

Chapter 50He didn't move.Sandra stood there, arms folded now, waiting. The beep from the monitor filled the space where his answer should have been.Ryan, she said again. Lift it.His jaw tightened. I told you, it's nothing. Just a burn from the crash. The nurse alreadyDon't lie to me, she cut in. Not tonight. Not after everything.Something in her voice made him stop. It wasn't loud. It didn't need to be. It was the voice of a woman who had already buried every soft thing she used to feel for him, and was speaking now from whatever was left standing in the ashes.His fingers moved to the edge of the bandage. Slow. Like every inch hurt more than the accident itself.Sandra watched. She didn't blink.The gauze came away in a strip, then two, then his skin showed through — pale, bruised at the edges, and there, just above his wrist, dark against the white of him.A tattoo. Fresh. Still healing at the rim.Two letters, wrapped in a small broken heart.J & R.The room tilted for Sandra