Willow.
The door clicked shut behind me, and I exhaled like I’d been holding in breath for hours. The hallway outside the clinic felt colder than before like the air itself was irritated with me. Or maybe it was just me all tightly wound with eyes heavy and body humming with too many things I couldn’t name out loud.
James was annoying but he wasn’t wrong. I was tense and for many reason. But unlike him though, I couldn’t just screw it away or laugh it off. I didn’t have that luxury. In fact I didn’t have any luxuries right from the beginning though I chose this for myself.
I started walking again, my boots echoing this time and somehow louder now that the sun had dipped behind the trees outside the west wing windows. Everything looked washed in blue and grey all quiet. I pressed my fi
