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RUNNING FROM MATE

Author: Favour
last update publish date: 2026-07-18 20:03:04

CHAPTER 16

Aria Johnson lay motionless in the private hospital room, the sterile white ceiling blurring through her tears. The rhythmic beep of the heart monitor felt like a ticking clock counting down the moments until her world collapsed completely. Two days had passed since the rescue, yet every bruise, every raw mark on her wrists, served as a brutal reminder of how close she had come to death.

And now, there was the baby. Damien Blackwood’s child.

She placed both hands gently over her stom
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