Adrian
"Ri?"
I turned at the sound of her voice, relief slamming into me at the sight of Lily running towards me—whole, beautiful, perfect.
The doctors had told me she was fine, that she would wake up just fine. Benji had said the same too. But if there was anything that had stirred my deep-seated fear of loss in the past couple of hours, it was the reminder that with a click of a button, life as I knew it could come crumbling down. That those I loved could easily be taken away from me in an instant.
I had wanted to stay by her side to keep that from happening—to wait for her to open her beautiful eyes. But knowing that the life of the man who had taken a bullet for me hung in the balance, Benji had shoved me out of her hospital room so I could be there for my father and Sadie, promisi
