LUCAS’S POV

The subtle fears I had once dispelled, now reared its ugly head at me, mocking me to my face.

I had somehow been expecting this, from the first few hours she woke from her unconsciousness. The detachment. I perfectly understood the gravity of what she went through and like her father had told me, “It will be rocky from here on”.

It was still funny how I braced myself for everything, but this. I could not imagine being shut out completely from her life. This was like a nightmarish dream I eagerly wanted to wake up from.

The hesitance in her eyes, the negative commentaries about herself, it...