Sophia’s POV
As I gradually regain consciousness, my eyelids flutter open, revealing the emptiness of the hospital room around me. I struggle to sit up, feeling the soreness in my body from the recent labour and the lingering effects of fainting earlier.
There is no one beside me, and it makes my heart clench and beat faster for some reason. Confusion and a hollow feeling filled my chest as I sat up, desperately searching for any trace of Alexander.
But he or the children are nowhere to be seen, and the realization makes me weak in the knees. A surge of panic gripped me, and I called out to the nurse who entered the room.
“You’re awake,” she exclaims. “It’s been a day since you fell asleep. You must have been really exhausted.”
“A day?” I ask, fully surprised. It is actually uncommo
