I wake up in a bed, but it's not mine and it's not Dominic's. I'm wearing a hospital gown and I'm hooked up to an IV. But I'm not in a hospital bed. It's just a normal bed in what looks like a normal room with wood floors, a patterned area rug, a leather chair off to the side, and beige curtains on the windows.
"Jess." Dominic appears next to me.
"Where am I?"
"You're at a private medical clinic. The same one I went to when I was shot."
"But where? Are we by your house?" I sit up, suddenly remembering what happened in the woods. "How's Lilly? Is she okay? What happened with your dad? And Katherine?"
He takes my hand. "Hey, one question at a time. And lie down, you're making me nervous."
I rest back on the stack of pillows behind my head.
"I can't tell you where we are," he says. "Bu
