Chapter 68: Catherine is Furious
CATHERINE
The elevator doors closed slowly with a hiss, before it started going down and I let my face drop the cheerful facade that it had been displaying all night long.
Not dramatically—I wasn't alone yet, there was a nurse at the station across the lobby who might have been watching me, well visitors in general, and she might have clocked me coming out of the pediatric wing—so I kept it contained, trying not to make it obvious so i would be one of those faces, not too special to be remembered.
But i allowed myself to have a release. Just a small release. The kind of exhaustion that came with pretending to be someone you are no for two hours, regardless of my actual feelings to it.
I crossed the lobby at the same measured pace I'd used upstairs, not
