#Chapter 77: The Scoop

Kayla Eventually, we had to leave the hospital. Not that we even wanted to—we both would have stayed forever if the nurse hadn’t come by and practically forced us to leave. “I’m sorry, you two,” the nurse said, his brow furrowed, “but I’m going to have to ask you to leave. You both have been here without sleep, food, or even water for over a day. We can’t risk having two more people collapse on our watch.” Nicholas and I resisted at first, but eventually realized that the nurse was right. We weren’t helping Noah any by sitting and wallowing by his bedside. If the guild really did have something to do with his sudden sickness, then we had to investigate. And we couldn’t do that if we were both too exhausted, hungry, and dehydrated to focus. The house was dark by the time we pulled up to the driveway later that evening. For a split second, I thought maybe we had gotten lucky. Maybe the reporters would have packed up and gone home by now. But the momen