Ava's POV
I stayed in the hospital for days, waiting until I fully recovered.
Victor still hadn’t returned to take Jasper. No message, nothing.
Just silence stretching thin and uneasy, like the quiet before a territorial dispute.
Jasper stuck around, crashing with me day in and day out at the hospital.
And the strangest part?
He behaved. No tantrums, no arrogance, no impulsive bursts of entitlement. Just obedience.
Even Nora noticed.
“This isn’t normal,” she muttered one afternoon, watching him sit still like a disciplined young wolf instead of the chaos-bringer he used to be. “Did the attack reset his personality or something?”
I didn’t answer because I wasn’t sure either.
On the third afternoon, Nora left for work, muttering something about paperwork and “people who clearly don
