Chapter 14
A month agoThe transparent glass doors of the hospice ward lurched as Leo passed under the oval black sensor on the pale blue wall above his head, his body breaking the tiny red spot of light on the speckled dusky gray linoleum floor. Before his stride carried him into a skull-cracking impact with the glass, a feat he'd been trying to manage for the last several weeks of this waking nightmare, the doors slid open with a reluctant sigh.
The floor inside was broken with an unyielding line of dark blue tiles. Every time Leo stepped into this too carefully antiseptic hall, he felt a hook deep in his guts, a hook that had responded to Maria since the first time he saw the endless pools of her clear emerald green eyes. Now that internal catch, built into his flesh long enough to fee
