Chapter 49 – Maya’s POV
My head throbbed, and just lying down alone hurts, the first thing I felt was the sting in my wrist.
A slow, dull ache that pulsed with my heartbeat.
The second was the smell of disinfectant and metal.
A hospital, an expensive one at that.
I blinked against the white ceiling lights, the world swimming in and out of focus. The room was quiet except for the steady beep of a monitor beside me. My lips were dry. My throat burned.
When I tried to sit up, pain rushed through my ribs, sharp and deep, forcing a gasp out of me.
For a long moment, I just lay there, staring at the ceiling, listening to the faint hum of the air conditioner.
Then I turned my head and saw him.
Liam.
He was slumped in a chair near the window, still in the same clothes from the warehouse
