Chapter 274: The Man in the Room
Sophia willed her eyes to open.
She shouldn't be asleep now. Shw should not be weak and in bed.
The room tilted and spun around her, slow and dizzy like a wheel that refused to stop, but she realized she was feeling… a little better. Not healed. Just less like she was drowning.
Her body still felt heavy, as though something invisible was pressing her down into the bed, but she managed to turn her head slightly.
To her side.
To the spot where the woman always sat.
But the woman wasn't there.
Instead, someone else was.
Sophia blinked slowly, trying to focus, trying to see. The shapes were still blurry, like looking through water, but she knew at once that this was not the woman.
This was a man.
The last time she had stood at the window in this place, he had guided her back to the bed. He had carried her to the bed, holding her with care.
