Chapter Seven
Aidan Smith
Aidan did as he’d promised and dropped in on Kim more often to make up for Chastain’s planned absence, ensuring she kept hydrated at the very least, but preferably was eating enough, too. The twins were doing the same.
When he was there, she was mostly in a kind of trance, not even noticing his presence, much less acknowledging it. But as long as the mugs of coffee and glasses of water were emptying, he was, well… not happy, but satisfied.
Occasionally she would look at him and smile, though he wasn’t convinced she was actually seeing him, or retaining the fact he’d even been there. But at least it meant she was reacting to the outside world in some way. It made him uneasy, but his medical training and common sense told him there was nothing to worry about—not
