|Sage’s POV|
“Mumma, will he be alright?” Adrian asks me softly, his big eyes staring at me with hope and the slight moisture glinting in them make my heart squeeze in my chest.
Cassian’s head shoots up to look at us from where he’s sitting on the sofa right in front of me. We are currently in a private waiting space reserved just for us in the largest multi specialty hospital in the state of DC.
We arrived here shortly after Avni— who is apparently Cassian’s bodyguard and personal assistant combined into one— drove through the maddening traffics, breaking at least a thousand rules, before we were finally able to get Xavier inside the operation theatre where the doctors are currently removing his bullets.
Through it all, Cassian has been by my side, assuring me and making sure that
