Her hand clutched his tightly. In that moment, her heart ached so intensely it felt like she was being sliced by a thousand knives.
'What will he do when he wakes up and sees I'm gone?' she wondered.
They only had four days left...
Watching Miles Xavier being rushed into the emergency room, Joan Shaw's body went limp, and she slid down against the wall. The scene of her kidnapping by the man in black replayed endlessly in her mind—his menacing face, the vicious gleam in his eyes—it was all like a nightmare.
Caleb Adler took off his jacket and draped it over her shoulders, covering her tattered clothes.
"Joan, why don't you go home and change? I can wait here."
"No, I'm not going anywhere. I'm waiting right here." Joan Shaw shook her head, terrified that if she left, she would return to terrible news.
She was unusually quiet, huddled in the corner, not crying or making a fuss.
It pained Caleb Adler to see her like this, and he stayed by her side.
