Jane's POV
Hours since the hospital had fallen back after midnight into the quiet of the night. It was the same unearthly whine of equipment and muffled sounds of midnight nurses' solitary, ectoplasmic whispers on the horizon that held nothing to remind friendship was barren within the hospital anymore. I woke to dim lights, my mind spinning with Mae's latest revelations and the sinister undercurrents between us. The physical pain of injuries had receded to a dull throb, but internal pain—a searing of suspicion and betrayal…was still too fresh.
I rolled onto my side, cradling my phone on the bedside table like a thin, tense lifeline. It vibrated softly, a jarring note in the stillness of the night. My heart dropped down my throat at the sight of the number on a stranger's phone I had nev
