Chapter 18
After a week in the hospital and put on several different IVs, Drew was cleared to go home. Darcie packed a few of his belongings she had kept, to send him off with. Now that he was alive, she had no reason to keep them. She tried visiting him every day at the hospital, but he barely said more than hello to her. The staff shaved Drew’s face and cut his hair. His skin was still pale white, but sometime in the sun would change that.
Drew looked funny with a beard: she was glad to see it gone. He was now able to feed himself and was already gaining some weight. He no longer tried kicking her out, but it was as if he had already written her out of his life. She didn’t know what to do to help him.
There was the old saying ‘time healed all wounds,’ and she tried to remember that, b
