um, don’t hate me at the end of this chapter okaaay?
A gentle knock on the doorway roused him from where he was flirting with a nap. The anesthesia had worn off, but his body was still tired from the surgery. It would be another few days before he was up and moving around and some time after that before he was able to leave the hospital. He blinked his eyes open, first taking in his fiancée’s grim face before she turned to look towards the doorway. He blinked again, slowly as his brain moved more sluggishly than he was used to.