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The whiskey flowed, but I couldn’t move from my spot beside the bed Couldn’t take my eyes off Sadie Couldn’t believe she was finally awake

Finally

Chapter Twenty-Eight

Jasper

It was a fluke A fucking fluke Sadie woke up, s herquestions about why she was in the hospital, how long she’d been there Then, while Virgil was out of the rooain and hadn’t woken up since

It didn’tsense “What the fuck, Doc?”

Purcell let out a frustrated sigh I could see thedeep into his well of patience before he looked across the bed at me, Sadie unconscious between us He shoved his hands into his lab coat “She woke up, Jasper, and that’s a good sign”

“Yeah, well, she hasn’t opened her eyes since”

“It takes time, Jasper She’s been out of it for ain, her body needs ti will feel new to her for so, not toto just wake up and beco”

The sympathy in his voice was the only reason I didn’t lay the fucker out

I nodded, too fucking exasperated to say or do anything else It wasn’t what I wanted to hear, but I knew Purcell was doing all he could to help Sadie

“So you’re saying she could stay asleep for another few months, or she could wake up any minute now?”

“Pretty much I know it’s not what you want to hear, but we can’t rush head trau is that she wakes up in her own time, when she’s ready, to minimize any further trauma”

“Yeah, I got it, Doc Thanks” I’d been at the hospital since last night because I couldn’t bring myself to leave after she woke up I had a childlike hope that she would wake up again in the night and everything would just go back to normal Ashby normal, anyway