Mira showed up at the hospital just as the sun started peeking over the city. The hallways were dead quiet. That hospital smell hung around, all bleach and cold air. Her pulse pounded in her throat as she made her way to Thane’s room.
Lights in there were barely on, just enough to see. Gabriel was passed out in a chair by Thane's bed, head tipped back, mouth hanging open, looking like he’d been hit by a truck. His jacket was bunched up in his lap, one hand flopped onto the mattress like he'd just dropped off mid-sentence.
Mira stopped in the doorway for a second, her chest tight. Something about seeing Gabriel like that wrecked but refusing to leave hit her right in the gut. He didn’t owe anybody anything, especially not Thane, but here he was. More loyal than Thane’s own brother, who, l
