Chapter 245: Therapy Session

RILEY

I watched through the hospital windows as Lumina, Lyn, and Lynn pulled into the parking lot, their faces flushed with cold air and something else I couldn't quite identify. There was a lightness to their movements, a sense of completion that hadn't been there when they'd left earlier.

I didn't ask where they'd gone. I'd learned that adults had their own business, their own secrets, and that pressing for information usually led to uncomfortable conversations about things I wasn't ready to understand. Instead, I focused on what mattered - Lake was still breathing, still fighting whatever battle was happening inside his unconscious mind, and our...