CHAPTER 23
DARKNESS HAD FALLEN when the voices finally stopped, and it was surprisingly cold sitting on the tiles. My bottom had long since lost all feeling, but that only merged into the numbness that had spread through the rest of me. I tugged the bath towel around me tighter, like a shield. I’d thought my heart would be in agony, but there was so little of it left intact, I’d gone beyond that.
Kat opened the door and used her good-ish arm to help me to my feet.
“Look at us,” she said. “We’re a pair of crocks.”
I managed a small smile. “When you said I wouldn’t be bored on this trip, I have to say this wasn’t what I imagined.”
She flopped down on one side of the bed, and I took the other. I felt a sharp stab between the ribs when I thought about the man who’d slept next to me the ni
