Leone's pov

Tone: Brooding · Quietly Furious · Emotionally Raw · Protective

They said I hadn’t slept in three days.

They were wrong. I’d slept exactly two hours on the floor beside her bed.

And I didn’t care if anyone saw me there.

I’ve been quiet for too long.

Too calm. Too calculated.

And every time I close my eyes, I see her. Not the way she looks now, stronger, healing, protected by my siblings but the way she looked when I carried her, limp and burning with ...