CHAPTER 42
THE TRUTH
ALEX'S POV
Three days.
Three days since Betty had been brought to the hospital, and she still hadn't opened her eyes.
I sat beside her bed, watching the steady rise and fall of her chest. The healers had told me she was stable and that her body needed time to recover, but none of them could tell me when she would wake. I was used to giving orders and getting answers. Sitting here with nothing to do but wait was becoming unbearable.
Kelvin hadn't settled since the night of the Red Moon.
She's still here, he kept telling me, as though I couldn't see her lying in front of us.
I dragged a hand over my face and looked at Betty again. There were bandages across her shoulder and along her side, and a bruise darkened the skin near her collarbone. She looked too still,
