Chapter 4

“You’re really doing this?” Edward asked, folding the discharge papers.

Claire stood at the window, hands gripping her cane. “You’re the one signing them.”

“I meant... leaving the hospital without a single visitor.”

Claire turned. “You visited.”

He met her gaze. “I don’t count.”

“Then that’s your mistake.”

Edward exhaled. “Leg brace adjusted?”

She tapped it against the floor. “Tight as a secret.”

“Pain meds?”

“No.”

He held out a small bottle. “Take them anyway. Just in case.”

Claire stuffed it into her satchel without answering.

The nurse entered with a wheelchair. Claire raised an eyebrow.

“No,” she said.

“It’s…