Miller
"The hospital smells so clean," I complained the moment Leo and I stepped out of the elevator and entered the private recovery wing where Jace had been transferred after surgery.
Leo chuckled beside me. "Of course it smells clean. This is a hospital," he replied calmly. "Hospitals are designed to maintain controlled sterile environments in order to reduce airborne contamination, bacterial exposure, and postoperative infections. If it smelled bad in here, that would be significantly more concerning."
I rolled my eyes immediately.
He was finally back to being himself again.
After what happened between us in the car earlier, I found myself noticing things about him more carefully. I caught the slight tension lingering in his shoulders, the way his jaw tightened whenever another nurse walked past discussing emergency cases, and the way his eyes instinctively scanned every medical monitor nearby without even trying.
