80. Making Progress

Silvan.

I placed a light kiss on Esme’s forehead after making sure that she didn’t stir from me putting a pillow in her arms.

As much as I wanted to spend all night in her arms, I had a lot of work to do. At first, I had thought that I’d be able to work all night to reduce the workload.

However, walking into the room and seeing Esme in my shirt had changed all of that.

Esme was not one to take the initiative. In fact, I had been the one to take the first move anytime, and even the world falling could not have allowed me to ignore her.

My phone’s screen lit up with a notification and I swiped the room card, stepping out so I could work without waking Esme up.

“He’s awake.”

Two words but I knew who he was talking about. After leaving the hospital, I had assigned one shadow guard to watch the director and I was starting to get worried since he has been asleep since we left.

His condition was getting better since he had external help from our healers, but I needed his testimony one mo