ZOE
My head was pounding because I hadn't managed to sleep well after being at that women-only gathering. I slept just enough not to look like a ghost. Wendy had stayed with her office colleagues, while I returned with Adriano, and then everything happened so quickly. I got up before dawn, with the alarm sounding as if it were pulling me out of a heavy slumber.
I took a quick shower to wash away the night I'd been through and went straight to the hospital to see Asher. Dr. Chevalier updated me in her calm and professional tone that the stimuli were still responding, that recovery was slow but steady.
I talked to him for a while, told him about the weather, about the instant coffee I had been consuming due to lack of money, as I refused to fully use the black card, about how much I misse
