(Mira)
Sometime before sunrise I woke up to a room that hadn't changed much since Ridge left.
Cassidy was still there, curled up in the other chair with her jacket pulled over her like a blanket, her head tilted to the side. She was asleep. Had been for a while from the look of it.
The room was quiet. The kind of quiet that came before the hospital fully woke up. No footsteps yet. No carts in the hallway. Just the building doing what it did through the night.
I lay there and looked at the ceiling.
Ridge hadn't come back yet.
I didn't know exactly what that meant but I had a feeling. The kind that settled in your chest without needing words to explain itself. He was out there finishing something. And when it was done he'd come back. That was Ridge. He always came back.
I shifted agai
