Chapter 20 : Choices

Theodora's POV

When I came to, everything ached.

My ribs felt sore, my arm tucked to my side, feeling weak and unstable. Fuck, did I break my arm? The last thing I remembered was being catapulted across the bridge right into a window, so I'm sure that could have broken an arm.

My other arm was stretched across the cot, fingers wound up in something cool and comforting.

The last time I broke a bone, it was my femur in the wheel of a cyber bike. That one took a solid week to heal with the advanced healing serum. A week of being bedridden, but at the very least, we were traveling so there wasn't much I was missing out on either way.

I groaned, slowly opening my eyes. Important to make sure I didn't have double-vision since I know I hit my head pretty hard. I flexed my fingers and whatever I was holding moved.

"How do you feel?" a silky smooth voice asked quietly.

"Javier," I murmured, blinking the sleepiness from my eyes to see him clearly next to me, leaning against the co