Briar POV “How could he leave?” Atlas barked, tossing items out of a basket filled with bedsheets. “Severin wouldn’t be hiding in a laundry basket,” I said. “I’m leaving no stone untouched.” He just got out of surgery, and he shouldn’t be wandering around the hospital half caught! What if he’s in a medically induced hallucination and didn’t know where he was? “I don’t know where to look, Atlas.” Atlas pulled out his phone and typed ferociously. “We need to split up,” he said, still engaged on his phone. “Okay, I’ll check the front desk again. Try taking the elevator to the above floors.” “When I catch him, Briar, I’ll beat him up.” “Oh, wait for me, we can kick his ass together.” The whole hospital was searching for him. I took the elevator to the front desk. There were guards

