Chapter 4

"Why didn't you come looking for me back then?" I asked.

The air in the hospital room grew heavy with tension. Jayce's grip on the patient chart tightened, and he fell silent for a long moment.

[Look for you? Of course I did! I went to your school, tracked you down at your internship hospital, and even camped out downstairs at your place for three days and nights!] Jayce's voice sounded in my head.

[But you left with that senior and disappeared overseas without a single word! Do you even know how hopeless I felt back then?]

I froze.

What?…