Delilah's POV
The world tilted sideways as I pushed off the wall and walked away quickly with my vision blurring.
The rest of the afternoon was a haze of avoiding people and keeping my head down and trying not to break down in the middle of the healing center. Every time I walked past a group of staff members, their conversations would pause until I was out of earshot. Every time I entered a room, someone would suddenly remember they needed to be somewhere else.
By the time my shift ended, I felt like I'd been scraped raw from the inside out.
I grabbed my bag from my locker without saying goodbye to anyone and stepped out into the late afternoon sun, already dreading the walk home and another evening of pretending everything was fine.
I'd barely made it half a block when my phone buzz
