“Oh my God, Maya.” Bruce felt his heart sink the moment he saw her.

He rushed to her bedside, with Lisa beside him. his eyes swept over the bandages wrapped around her body, the paleness of her skin, how weak she looked beneath the hospital lights.

The monitor beside her beeped faintly, each sound tightening something in his chest.

“I shouldn't have let you alone. I shouldn't have even though you insisted,” he murmured. “What happened?”

He sat beside her, gently taking her hand, ...