Mate Rebound
“You’re going to be fine. The healers have all agreed that the cure is taking effect, and I will stay with you until you wake up. We’ve gotten this far, we’ll get through this, together.”
I ran my hands over his body, stretched the blanket, and fluffed up the pillow under his head. All seemed to be stable, and I snatched the book from the top of the nightstand. It was the one he used to read out loud to me as a child. I thought that maybe, just maybe, reading it back to him would get through to him in a way that my own words hadn’t.
I leafed through it, settling into the words. Time just seemed to slip by, easy and slow.
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