Chapter 283

Delilah

Light burned behind my eyelids, and the first thing I felt was pain.

There was a pain that I could not describe, and though I’ve been hearing everything that’s been said throughout the past week, I couldn’t respond.

The dull, heavy ache in my chest. My shoulder. My ribs. Everything just seemed to collapse and I found it harder for me. To even open my eyes or my mouth, even breathing was hard without the oxygen mask which was stuck to my face.

But under all of it was something warm pressing against my hand.

A warmth that I couldn’t help but find myself admiring being thankful for.

It was one that my body seemed to crave, one that I wanted to hold on to, one that I wanted to maintain despite me not knowing how to say it.

And then I heard him.

His voice was low, rough.

“…I love you.”

My chest stuttered.

And everything in me forced me to want to fight back, to want to fight my weakness, my pain, to want to