Before the promised day

The following days went by slowly.

Summer's family refused the jet that was sent to get them from Louisiana yet still managed to come that very same night flying commercial. Summer had been discharged to the best room in the hospital by then. And while Summer's mother immediately ran to be in the same place as her daughter, neither her father nor her big brother entered that room once. 

They didn't speak to Valentine either. But Gabe almost never left his side. And Gabe was learning many things about the man meanwhile. 

'He's just as superstitious as Summer is,' he noted the first morning of Summer's coma, having directly asked him why he gathered all the other men around Summer and getting an equally direct answer to that question. Valentine told him that he believed what the fortune teller had said, that one of the men in that hospital was the man who could save her life.