“I’m gonna smuggle you out of here,” he said, making my brows pinch.
“What?”
“Got the club SUV. If we’re careful, we can get out before someone stops us.”
“Why would you sneak me out?”
“To go see Perish.”
I shot upward.
The world spun.
But I twisted to swing my legs off the side of the bed.
I was dressed in a hospital gown but had no memory of being changed. Maybe my mom did it after the meds knocked me out.
“Whoa. Slow down.”
“Where is he? Is he okay?”
“He’s just getting out of surgery,” Rune said, holding a hand up to me. “He’s gonna be in recovery for a bit. We have time.”
“Did it go okay? Is he alright?”
“We’re not getting a lot of information. No one is family. He’s got no next of kin listed. What we do know is what Fallon has bribed out of the staff.”
But he was alive.
That was something, right?
“Why would you bring me there?”
Rune watched me for a long moment, the look in his eyes wise beyond his years.
“I think we both know why.”
“How long have you known?”
“A while,” he said, shrugging.
“Why didn’t you say something?”
“It’s not my business.”
“There are rules.”
“Pretty sure you two are the ones breaking them, not me.”
“Except for now.”
“Yeah, well, this would just be a slap on the wrist. Here,” he said, striding away to one of the many white metal storage cabinets and coming back with an outfit inside a sealed bag.
Cream sweats.
Rune helped me get the pants up over the bandages on my legs, then helped me get to my feet so I could pull them all the way back up.
It was right then that we heard footsteps.
