Chapter 208
~ Navine ~
I couldn't sit still. Couldn't stop pacing the narrow corridor outside Hailey's hospital room, my steps restless and uneven, my mind refusing to quiet no matter how many laps I made between the wall and the window.
Nathaniel was doing the same thing a few feet away, both of us wearing tracks in the linoleum, both refusing to acknowledge how similar we looked in our shared anxiety, mirroring each other in movement and tension whether we liked it or not.
What was wrong with her? Why had she fainted, just dropped like that without warning after seeming steady only minutes before?
The head injury seemed stable—the doctors had said so yesterday, had sounded confident and clinical and reassuring. So what had caused her to just collapse like that, so suddenly and compl
