Racheal asked the nurse questions.

The nurse had offered to take the couple up, instead of simply directing them to the ward Roman Gilbert was at.

The nurse told them that it was not so much the burns but the poisonous gas the patient had inhaled that kept him here all these months.

Racheal held her breath as she stepped into the ward.

The man lying on the bed was young, she suspected, in his early thirties.

Even with the burns and how emancipated his body looked, you could ...