Chapter 40

HAYDEN

I blinked as the bright white lights burned at my eyes.

Sebastian’s blurry image slowly became clear.

I stared at him as he made his way over to me

“You are awake, how do you feel?”

I lay on the bed confused for a mom, the unmistakably smell of antiseptics and sanitizer filtering into my nostrils.

Why am I in a hospital?

I searched my brain but everything was blank for a moment, it took about five seconds before it came flooding like a surge of waters.

She’d left…

She left me…

With the thought I managed to a sitting position, the sudden motion making blind spots appear in my head for a moment.

“Where is she?” I rasped, unable to keep the desperation out of my voice, my throat dry and scratchy but that was the last thing I cared about.

His gaze settled briefly on mine, silently he walked to the nearby stand to pour water into a glass before making his way back over to me.

My veins thrummed with tensi