Chapter 99

MAGNAR’S POV The whole damn day had passed, and she still hadn’t come to see me. Not even once. I laid back against the hospital cot, staring at the ceiling, feeling like a complete idiot. "This is boring," I muttered, running a hand through my hair in frustration. Bernard, who was sitting on a chair beside my bed with his arms crossed, snorted. "And you are dumb," he said flatly. "You really think playing the wounded warrior is going to get her attention? If anything, it’s having the opposite effect." I clenched my jaw. "What’s that supposed to mean?" "It means," Bernard sighed, leaning forward, "that all this ‘woe is me’ nonsense has captured the wrong attention. My ears are already bleeding from Lily’s complaints about how you’re not paying her enough attention and maybe this karma of not giving her enough attention." Bernard was clever enough to find out of everything on his own but Lily, not so much. I groaned, throwing my head back against the pillow. Of course, Lily would be mak