CHAPTER 74

The week that followed the healing of my injury was pretty basic and at the same time, tedious. The doctor kept visiting the house daily to check on my wounds and change the dressings. Suzy continued to come over to keep me company and Connor was by my side through it all. Jojo too. Even though she appeared quite a distance when she was with me and wouldn't even bother to talk about other things. I had let her be, knowing fully well how she was bound to react if I forced her into talking to me. In the next week of my recovery, I was able to do pretty much a few things by myself and the wounds didn't hurt as they did before. When Suzy came to see me again, I asked her about Miranda. Somehow, I was beginning to miss her and the times we spent being our vulnerable selves on phone calls. I missed that woman who was always there for me when no one else was. "She's okay," Suzy replied to me, checking the dressing around my wounds. "She was going to come over but decided you were not in the