Madeleine walked to her mother's hospital room and stepped inside. Her father was gone again, and her mother was sitting in the bed reading something. Madeleine sat down beside her bed. "Maman?"
"Yes, dear?" Victoria set her book down and smoothed her hands along her lap. She was exhausted, but her injuries seemed to be healing okay.
"Remember how I told you about Christian?" Madeleine worried her hands in her lap.
"Yes?" Victoria waited for her to continue. She could tell from the color in her daughter's cheeks that something must have happened.
"Last night, while I was following a nurse to you... I saw a patient... that-" She stopped talking and her mother warmly smiled.
Victoria's heart grew warm and she reached over and touched her chin, raising Madeleine's face, so that her g
