C69 Chapter 69

Melia’s pov

“Ready to go?” he asked, his voice low, threaded with the command I’d grown used to.

It’d been a few days since Bastian and I … recognized. I was being discharged. The early light of morning filtered through the hospital room’s blinds, soft but unyielding.

I sat on the edge of the bed, fully clothed for the first time in days. There was a feeling of finality