Liam
With the engine roaring to life, I sped through the city streets, my grip on the steering wheel white-knuckled. The hospital loomed on the horizon, a distant beacon of hope in the daylight. My mind raced with a thousand thoughts and scenarios, each more terrifying than the last.
Never in my life did I imagine I'd be this worried for Casmir, especially not on the same day that he revealed to me the worst of his secrets. Right now I should be at a bar rejoicing that things were now going my way, but here I was running into the hospital like a deranged maniac.
Minutes felt like hours as I waited, pacing the sterile hospital floor. The weight of the unknown— the fear of Casmir's death was a relentless pressure on my chest. I prayed for his safety, for a positive outcome, as the seconds ticked by like a ticking time bomb.
