Chapter 6

Sophie's surgery lasted five hours.

Adrian should have been in his own room.

His shoulder was injured, his forehead had just been stitched, and the pain medication hadn't fully taken effect. But when a nurse urged him for the third time to rest, he remained outside the operating room.

"I'm waiting until she comes out."

I didn't stop him.

If Sophie had been an ordinary colleague, I might have reminded him that doctors were taking care of her and his presence changed nothing.

But she wasn't an ordinary colleague anymore.

She had saved my husband's life.

Adrian sat beside me…