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Chapter 101

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RAINE

I don't remember the ride.

I remember the white blur of highway lights and the roar of my engine and Isla's arms locked around my waist and her face pressed into my back. I remember Cole's headlight in my mirror. I remember the hospital at four in the morning, glaring and silent, and a tall woman in scrubs standing at the doors with her hands folded.

"Miss Mercer. This way."

The room was small and dim. A single lamp. A window, black. A bed with rails, and in it, small, gray, hooked up to
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