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CHAPTER 52

Author: Twinkle
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-10-22 15:21:42

The discharge papers felt like a Get Out of Jail Free card soaked in medical antiseptic.

By three o’clock, Jace was standing upright in the sterile hospital room, looking entirely too stubborn for someone whose heart had literally staged a mutiny twelve hours earlier. The doctors had plastered him with strict orders: zero swimming for two weeks, mandatory heart-rate monitoring, and absolute avoidance of acute stress triggers.

As if Jace Carter could avoid stress while living in a soap opera.

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