Chapter 108

Deidre

“Where is he?”

I don’t give Mark time to sit down before I barked at him, anxious to check in on Ben. I sent Jennivah home the last hour: she was exhausted and needed sleep. And Irene finally arrived to relieve me after leading the morning meeting so I can go to Ben, who wasn’t in attendance.

There are few healers I trust enough to monitor Kira. And now that her vitals are stable and the signs of her allergic reaction have passed, all we can do now is wait. I had calculated enough of the sleeping draught to make her sleep for two days. But with the adrenaline through her system, it could be any minute or as far off as tomorrow. And I’m not leaving this building until she wakes up.

Mark grunts, “Down the hall. Private room 204.”

I grab Mark’s hand and steer him the opposite way down the hall, winding through corridors and to my office. He yanks his hand out of mine and follows anyway. I slam the door when we’re inside. “What did Benjmain say?”

“Not much. Nothing really except f