POV: Chloe

Leo was the world's most difficult patient.

He had agreed to stay in bed on the condition that I stayed with him, which sounded reasonable until I understood that staying with him meant bathing him, changing his dressings.

You would think that was enough, but Leo also wants me to bring his meals, reading documents to him when his arms were too stiff to hold them comfortably.

And fielding a continuous stream of requests delivered with the shamelessness of a powerful man who had discovered that being injured gave him unlimited access to my attention and had decided to maximise this.

"You can reach the water yourself," I...