Lila's POV
The nurse on the phone said something about visiting hours, about calling back in the morning, and I nearly threw my phone across the room.
"No, you don't understand…" My voice cracked, panic clawing up my throat faster than I could swallow it down. "I need someone to check on her right now. Room 214. Sarah. Please, just; can you just go look, just tell me she's okay. I need to."
The line went dead before I got an answer, some automated hold music kicking in, and that was it. That was the thing that finally broke me. I slid down against my own front door, note still crumpled in one fist, phone in the other, and for a solid minute I couldn't do anything but shake.
Then I thought of Jax.
He was the only person outside the Serpents who actually knew, really knew, what I used t
