LOVE UNDER CONTRACT
“You’ve carried me for so long. Since we've been at the Orphanage, it’s been you holding everything together. I just wish—”
“Don’t wish for anything,” she whispered gently, squeezing his hand. “Just focus on living. Leave the rest to me.”
For a moment, silence filled the room, the atmosphere thick with words unspoken. Then Caleb let out a shaky laugh, his shoulders easing for the first time in weeks. “You’re impossible, you know that?”
Cara chuckled softly. “And you love me for it.”
He smiled, weak but real, and she knew in that instant that she had given him something even more important than the surgery and that was hope.