Twenty
Marcus
It took three days before the doctor would let me leave the hospital.
Of course, I could have ignored him and left when I woke up from my morphine haze the morning after being admitted, but Evelyn was having none of it. She insisted I stay in bed and let the hospital staff pump me full of drugs, and she was being pretty f*****g stubborn about it.
So instead of getting up and getting even with Brigs for his attempt at my life, I’d spent nearly half a week in bed being coddled like a child. But when I tried to protest, she just looked at me with a stern expression in those beautiful eyes of hers, and everything in me sang with pure joy.
She loved me.
She loved me, and I knew I had finally found peace. I should have been fighting tooth and nail to keep the monster at bay a
