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Zack struggled to sit up straighter when he saw Melissa in the doorway of his hospital room. It was a difficult and painful manoeuvre for him, even with help from Sophie; the injuries he had received last night, combined with those he was still recovering from following the attempts on his life, made every movement a source of pain.
“Morning,” he said as Melissa moved into the room. “I didn’t expect to see you this morning. To be honest, I didn’t even know for sure that you were alive.”
Hearing that, Melissa glanced over at Sophie, a questioning look on her face.
“He hasn’t long woken, I haven’t had a chance to tell him what happened after he lost consciousness. I don’t even know most of it myself,” Sophie admitted. The first she had known that there was anything wrong last evening w
