A roll of bandage was wrapped around Barristan’s stomach. He was still lying on the hospital bed, humming slightly with his eyes closed.
On hearing footsteps, he opened his eyes and looked up in surprise to Elyssa approaching him.
“Lovely morning, miss,” a smile as warm as the morning sun lighted up his face as he sat up to recline against the headboard of the bed. “Hope you had you slept well? And I never got to know your name.”
“Lovely morning to you too,” She forced back a smile as she sat down next to him. “I did sleep well. And you can call me Elyssa.”
The morning wasn’t lovely to her, especially with everything that played out with Edric before she came. She didn’t sleep well at all last night. Not when things were taking a bad dramatic turn in her life. The only thing that broug
