The Night Before(83)

“I want to go to the hospital,” I tell them. “I want to see Jonathan Fielding. I want to be there when he wakes up, even if his family won’t let me near him. Even if he won’t see me.”

“Why, Laura?” Rosie asks. “You don’t have to do that. You did nothing wrong.”

And I think that maybe that’s true. Or maybe it’s not. But a thought has formed inside my heart more than my head. And I have no choice now but to trust it. And to follow it.

“I just need to do this,” I say. But that’s not entirely true.

The thought is this, and I hear it in the voice of Dr. Kevin Brody.

My only chance now is forgiveness. I have to forgive myself for the things Gabe Wallace has done in my name. And that forgiveness will not be easy. It will be a mountain I have to climb, step by step, inch by inch. It may take a lifetime. It may never come.

But the first step has to be with this man. Making peace with Jonathan Fielding.

And everything that happened the night before.