My head was pounding when I woke up, and it took a while for my vision to adjust to the light in the room.

It felt like my eyelids weighed a ton, and when I finally managed to open them, I winced and shut them back.

My head throbbed as a result.

“It’s okay, take your time,” a voice said softly beside me.

It wasn’t Arlo’s. It was from a stranger, a nurse to be exact, a woman wearing pale blue scrubs.

I blinked through the blur until everything came into focus. I was in a hospital room, though it didn’t look like one with how luxurious the room looked,...