Chapter 821

Pinebrook Hospital. Lily slowly opened her eyes, blinking a few times before she sat up abruptly, panic written all over her face. "Crap, I'm gonna be late!" Right next to her, Nicholas had dozed off, slumped over the edge of her bed after staying there all night. She glanced at him, momentarily distracted. This guy was seriously good-looking… even his sleeping face was unfairly perfect. Wait... was he the one who brought me here last night? Her heart stumbled a beat. This man, her husband—technically speaking—was still a mystery to her. A stranger she married in a whirlwind. Everything about him felt distant, unreal. But seeing him like this, head down next to her bed after a sleepless night, something shifted inside her. Lily had grown up in a small town, always the model student—smart, quiet, wrapped up in books and grades. She was one of those people others might call boring… a total nerd. She loved learning, loved getting lost in books, and that meant she lived in her own little b