CHAPTER 60
MARA’S POV
Our shoes clicked against the tiled floor as Lia and I laughed our way toward the meeting room. She joked about the photograph and claimed she caught Alexander crying once over it in his office. I imagined the scene–Alexander wiping his teary face as Lila burst into the office–and went into another fit of laughter.
But that joy slowly faded away as I suddenly noticed something… off.
Yes, the hospital was chaotic that morning, but the halls were… louder than usual. It wasn't the bustling of nurses or the teenager arguing at the waiting room–but the whispers that flew on everyone's lips. It was the kind that people tried to hide, yet failed miserably at.
Lila and I walked past the interns’ lounge where the chatter suddenly dipped. The girls turned their heads at
