Unbind (Alchemy #6)

by Elodie Hart

I blink at her. ‘What are you doing? I’m ill, not totally incompetent.’ ‘You need to learn,’ she says softly, ‘that there are people in this world who will take care of you because they can think of nothing more they’d rather do. Open.’

‘Listen to me. I care about you, you idiot. I’ll take you any way I can get you, and there’s no way on earth I’d leave you when you were ill. I hate that you’re feeling crap, and I’m going to do everything I can to make it all the slightest bit less grim for you. Do you understand what I’m saying?’

Clearly Anna has not received the memo that being told to calm down has never, ever resulted in anyone actually calming down. Not in the entire history of humankind.