Nina’s POV
Leo finally fell asleep close to dawn.
The transfusion stabilized him enough for the doctors to stop hovering around his room every few minutes, but I still couldn’t relax completely. Every sound from the monitor beside his bed kept pulling my attention back toward him like something terrible would happen the second I looked away.
Julian sat near the window quietly scrolling through messages on his phone while the early morning light slowly filled the hospital room.
Neither of us had slept.
Neither of us even tried.
Because too much had changed in a single night.
I adjusted Leo’s blanket gently before stepping outside the room for air. The hallway felt colder than before, and for the first time since arriving at Saint Bernard Hospital, my mind finally became quiet enough
