KAEL The hospital room smelled like antiseptic and quiet suffering. I immediately hated it. I had driven like a madman the second I got the call from Liam, voice shaking, telling me Selena had been in a car accident. She was stable, he said. Minor injuries. But she didn’t want to see him. She had screamed at the nurses to keep him out of the room. I knew why. I pushed open the door to her private room, heart hammering harder than it had any right to. The sight of her hit me like a fist. Selena lay in the hospital bed, so pale, a bruise on her cheek and bandages on her arm. Her eyes were red from crying. When she saw me, something broke and reformed in her expression all at once; relief, anger, hunger, pain. Monitors beeped steadily beside her. Her eyes were swollen from crying, but the second they locked on mine, something desperate showed in them. She was lying down, hospital gown loose on her body, one shoulder slipping down, exposing the soft curve of her breast.
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