But she ignored all of it. None of it mattered. Nathan mattered. Ethan mattered. Ruby looked toward the emergency doors with fierce determination, slowly replacing the fear in her eyes.
She had nobody. No family. No phone. No money she could access immediately. And Maxwell was nowhere to be found. But those boys were depending on her.
So she would fight. Even if she had to crawl through hell itself. Ruby pushed herself away from the wall and forced her weak legs toward the reception desk.
One step at a time. Refusing to break. Ruby stepped out of the hospital feeling like the entire world was spinning beneath her feet.
The heat from her own fever mixed with panic until she could barely think straight. Cars rushed past noisily on the busy street while people moved around her without slowing down, too wrapped up in their own lives to notice the woman silently falling apart in the middle of the city.
