Diego's POV

{One week later}

The hospital had become my second home, a place of sterile smells and hushed whispers, each day an identical loop of hope and crushing despair. Each day I went to the hospital, it was a futile attempt to coax Adriana back to me, and every visit left me more devastated than the previous ones.

I hadn't returned to the syndicate, my office, leaving Rodrigo in charge, my mind solely consumed by the woman clinging to life and the two tiny lives I hadn't yet dared to ...