OH MY GOD I JUST HEARD, ARE YOU OKAY?
I’M COMING TO THE HOSPITAL
There were messages from the Wild Sisterhood, which she read aloud to Fee. And there were a couple of messages from Mark, hoping she felt okay and sending his love.
Ellie’s heart flipped a little as she read that one. She replied:
Okay, thanks. Feel pretty yuck but they think we’ll be okay. Send baked goods.
She watched the screen in hope for a few moments, but Mark wasn’t a fast replier. He was usually working, and probably had his head in an engine with his phone in another room.
Instead, she replied to Rowland, who replied immediately with a shower of emojis.
Words would have been nice, she thought, seeing as she’d been in a life-threatening incident, but maybe Rowland was busy, and it was nice of him to reply at all.
She closed her eyes, feeling a wave of fatigue engulf her. She dropped the phone onto her covers.I’ll get it later, she thought, woozily, drifting off. It was too much to focus on anything for too long right now.
But when she dreamed, it was Mark she saw, not Rowland. In her sleep, she smiled.
