Chapter 48
Joe’s POV
The world returned to me slowly, like a whisper riding on the back of the wind. Everything was foggy, dim, like I was underwater trying to swim toward the surface. The last thing I remembered was a voice. Soft. Trembling. Familiar.
“I’ll marry you…”
That voice had pulled me back from the void. But the warmth it brought faded as quickly as it came.
My eyes fluttered open.
Light.
A white ceiling. Beeping machines. Tubes stuck into my arm. A dull ache thundered through my skull, and my body felt like it had been steamrolled.
I was… alive?. But where…where am I?.
I blinked slowly, then saw a shape sitting beside me.
A girl.
She looked like she had been crying for hours. She had red, swollen eyes, and messy hair but she was still… strangely beautiful. Her hands
