Brandon & Chloe — The Last Wish
Grief didn’t vanish because I had learned a useful lesson.
But I stopped treating ordinary happiness as a betrayal.
PART 14
When I returned to the hospital, the first thing I noticed was the smell of coffee in the staff room.
I expected the corridors to look unfamiliar after what had happened.
Instead, everything was painfully the same.
Monitors sounded.
A cart squeaked near the elevator.