AS MY CONSCIOUSNESS returned, so did a deep aching pain that I felt in nearly every muscle I had. I was still so tired, but there was no way that I could settle back in now. Not after I’d become aware of how much everything hurt.
Why couldn’t I just have stayed asleep?
Peeling my eyes open with reluctance, I noticed Luca slumped in a chair near my bed. Which, wait just one f*****g minute. He’d had a rougher ordeal than I had. Our rescuers had to literally carry his unconscious body all the way here. How come he was up, and I felt like I wouldn’t be able to move even if I’d wanted to?
He must have felt the force of my irritated stare or something, because I watched as he straightened, the motion fluid like nothing had happened to him at all. His eyes fell on me with a decent amount of co
