Patrick's POV

Three days later

I looked up from the book I was reading out loud, sitting back in the chair by her bed. "Any news, Doctor?"

He checked the charts and her vitals, not saying anything for a few minutes. He wrote a few things down, then sat in the chair by mine, both of us facing the bed holding Jessie Donato, originally Natalya Klishnina. Her head was wrapped in bandages, her right leg in a cast, and more dressings covered her stomach under the sheet. "She is healing, and her brain pressure is under control, that is all good news. If she continues to show no signs of...