Lena's POV
Sophie arrived on a Thursday morning with one oversized bag, strong opinions about New York weather, and the particular energy of a person who had been worried about someone for ten days and was finally in the same city as them.
She hugged me in the hospital lobby for a long time.
"You look tired," she said when she pulled back.
"I'm fine."
"You look tired and fine. Both." She looked around the lobby. "This place is enormous."
"It's a Cole building. They don't do small."
She followed me to the elevator and I gave her the condensed version of the past ten days on the way up — Adrian's recovery, the board meeting, the civil case, Claire Holt's suspension, Richard's charges. She listened without interrupting, which took visible effort.
When I finished she said, "And where a
