Chapter 109

• I slowly closed my eyes and looked around me, still in the same room, and then I saw the face of someone I’d been missing lately; he smiled fondly at me, his gaze implying concern. I smiled weakly at him, and he kissed my forehead a little longer.
• “You look a mess, honey,” I said to the man I love so much, my hands raised to caress his face, his jaw lined with fine hair that looked a little bushy as if he hadn’t shaved.
• “I can’t do anything but wait for you, I’ll call the doctor.”