Chapter 70 Echoes Of The Vow

• The sky bled into amber and gray outside the hospital windows. Scarlett stood stiffly beside Damien’s bed, watching the even rise and fall of his chest. The machines had been disconnected. No more beeping. Just the silence between them, the kind that either healed or destroyed.
• She reached for his hand. It was warm. Real. Awake.
• “Why didn’t you tell me?” Damien’s voice cracked through the stillness. “That they came after you. That my father”