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Chapter 44

When Emma next woke, Steve was sitting in a chair beside her bed.

"Hey," he said, leaning close and running a finger down the side of her face. "How do you feel?"

"Like I rolled my car a few times," she said.

He smiled, but it wasn't one of those smiles that filled his eyes with that sparkle she had always associated with him, with the happier moments of their time together. It had been a long time since she had seen that.

Emma's eyes filled with tears. She turned, stared up at the ceiling.

"Hey," he said again. He ran his hand over the curve of her jaw. "You're going to be okay."

"No," she said, shaking her head, and then regretting it as pain burst through her forehead. "Nothing's ever going to be okay again."

"Emma-" he picked up her hand and kissed her palm lightly. "Nothing is set in stone."

She just shook her head again.

The door opened a moment later. The doctor came in, all business, blustering through a quick exam. When he was done, he handed Steve some paperwork. "Yo
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