Ally gasps.“Who would do that?”
“I’m gonna find out,” Ledger says, voice low and lethal.“But until then?She doesn’t leave my sight.”
My heart flutters painfully.
“Your sight?”Ally demands.“She barely remembers you!”
Ledger doesn’t flinch.“Doesn’t matter.I remember her.”
The words hit me with a strange, warm force.
I swallow shakily.“Ally, it’s okay.”
“It isnotokay!”She challenges.
“It is,” I repeat quietly.“He makes me feel safe.The doctor said the memories will come back.”
Ledger goes completely still.Ally looks between us, her expression shifting from outrage to confusion to something softer.Finally, she sighs.“Fine.But if she gets more confused because of you, I’m smacking you with a rolling pin.”
Ledger almost smirks.“Wouldn’t be the first time.”
Ally groans and leaves to talk to the doctor.When the door closes, Ledger turns to me.“You good?”
“No,” I say honestly.“But I think I trust you.”
His chest rises and falls in one deep breath like I just handed him something fragile and dangerous.“Then we’ll start there,” he murmurs.
Not with memories.Not with a past I can’t reach.But with trust.Something small and warm unfurls inside me.
“I’m scared.”
His eyes soften.“Me too.”
The honesty in his voice steals my breath.
He steps closer slow, careful and rests his hand on the metal rail beside my head, not touching me but close enough that heat radiates between us.
“We’ll get through this,” he states like it’s a fact.“Together.”
My pulse stutters.
I don’t know why his presence calms me.
I don’t know why his voice grounds me.
I don’t know why he feels like gravity.
All I know is this, I don’t want him to leave.
And the scariest part?
Somewhere deep inside the fog of my mind, past the amnesia, past the fear, something in me whispers that he never would.
Seven
Ledger
She may not remember me.But I remember everything.
