“I’ll tell her. And she has a message of her own to pass along. She says that what you did was incredibly selfless and brave, and if you’re ever tempted to do anything like that again, remember she’s waiting on the other side to kick your ass for the rest of eternity.”

I laughed, but it came out a little ragged, my gaze sliding to the safety of the window.

“Did I miss something?” Adam asked.

“She’s warning me not to tangle with psychotic hell-escapees,” I said. “Which is good advice in general, and—”

“What’d Savannah do?” he said, cutting me off as he turned to Jaime.

I tried to protest, but Jaime told him. As Adam realized what she was saying, his face went rigid, eyes blazing, his fingers heating on my arm. When she finished, though, he turned to look at me, and his expression ... It was respect and it was pride and it was anger and it was something more, too, but before I could figure out exactly what it was, he glanced down, rubbing his chin, the fingers rasping against his beard stubble.

“Yes, you need a shave,” I said.

The corner of his mouth twitched a little, but he still didn’t look at me.

“Your mom’s right,” he finally said, voice gruff. “It was an insanely brave and insanely stupid thing to do, and if you ever consider it again, remember I’m on this side, and if you survive, I’ll kick your ass for the next fifty years, okay?”

“Okay.”

I smiled and he looked at me, and our eyes met, and my heart started beating so fast I could barely breathe.

“Oh, would you look at the time?” Jaime said, jumping up. “I promised Elena I’d call with an update before three.”

“I’ll call her myself,” I said quickly, and Adam looked away just as fast, saying he’d get my phone, then go grab us all something to eat from a café across the road.

“They have chocolate chip cookies,” he said as he handed me my phone. “They look really good.”

I made a gagging noise and he laughed, and whatever had been in the room a moment ago had passed.

As he teased me, though, a nurse stopped and popped her head into the room.

“You got the cookies, then?” she said.

We all stared at her.

“I heard you talking about cookies ...” Her gaze moved down the hall. “No, they’re still here. Just a moment.”

She came back carrying a box that made my stomach clench. Taste of Heaven cookies.

“Your friend dropped these off earlier,” the nurse said as Adam took the box.

“Friend?”

“A young woman. She came in to see Savannah. She knocked over the bed tray and Linda gave her quite the tongue-lashing, I’m afraid. She left these and took off.”

“When did this happen?” Adam demanded.