Elena POV
“I’m so sorry.” Lucas said in the car as he picked pieces of egg shell out of my hair and put them on the jacket lying between us. “I should have been more observant.”
Asking him not to bother hadn’t had any effect, so I let him pick them out, without mentioning that I could feel even more pieces of egg shells glued to my neck and my back.
“It’s not your fault.” I said quietly, looking out the window. Outside, clouds gathered in large balls of grey, floating solemnly as they looked like they were about to weep for me. “You don’t have to apologize.”
“When I find out who they are,” he gritted out through clenched teeth, “they’ll pay for it. I’m already working with the hospital’s security and I’ll have their identities soon enough.”
“No,” I said leaning my head against the hea
