❛ Did you sleep? ❜
They had been put through the ringer and it had almost cost him everything. A world without Elena was a world Clay had no interest in living in. She was the goodness in it, the one thing that calmed the animal that raged within him and without her it would run rampant and he would no longer keep it contained. Why would he? What point would it be to hold back when your heart had long since stopped beating
Her voice cuts through the silence that fills the room; a sigh of relief escapes from his lungs as tired eyes gaze upon her frame. Clay hadn’t left her side since she’d been brought in and the exhaustion on his face could clearly be seen on his features. His body shifts as he leans forward, hand instinctively reaching out for hers as a smile softly pulls at the corner of his lips.
❛ It doesn’t matter if I slept. — How’re you feelin’? ❜
