ROBYN
Robyn was the only person who could make me drop to my knees.
Pretending I didn’t hear what he said, I went back to sleep.
***
Max must have left while I was still sleeping. As Spade promised, he spent the entire night at the hospital until I woke up and stayed during the doctor’s round.
For the first time, I saw the wounds. There were four small wounds, including the stab wound, around 2 inches long.
Horrified, I trembled, not from the pain, but from how they inserted foreign objects into my body to repair the damage, and I expected the worst, like a long scar in the middle of my abdomen.
Breathing hard, I looked away, with my heart feeling like it was crashing in my chest.
“It’s okay, baby,” Spade whispered in my ear. He never left my side, his arm wrapped over my should
