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AARONThe clock on the wall mocked me with every tick. Each second stretched, an eternity between one heartbeat and the next. I sat where I had been since they sedated her, hunched forward in the stiff hospital chair, her fragile hand cradled in mine like it was the last thread holding me to the earth.It had been hours. The room was too quiet now, the earlier panic a violent echo replaying in my head on a loop. I could still hear her sobs, the way she begged not to be buried again, how she didn’t even know I was there until the very end. My name had left her lips like it cost her everything she had left.And I couldn’t stop thinking about how many times she’d probably cried like that while I wasn’t there to save her.What he did to her.What he put her through.I ran a trembling hand down my face, exhaling sharply. My body screamed for rest, but my mind was a battlefield. Gerald was still breathing, still free, and my wife—my fierce, bright, untouchable Venus—was lying broken because
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AARONHospitals make me feel caged. The walls are too white, the lights too bright, the air too clean in a way that makes you think of endings, not healing. But this room? This was worse.Because Venus was in that bed, still and pale, hooked up to more wires than I could stand to look at. And no matter how many times I whispered her name, she didn’t answer.Two days. Forty-eight hours of me sitting in this chair, gripping her hand like a lifeline, while the world outside kept spinning like nothing had happened. Gerald Marlowe was still breathing, my wife was fighting invisible demons, and I was stuck here, helpless.I hadn’t left the room once. Didn’t eat. Didn’t sleep. The only thing keeping me upright was sheer will and hatred burning a hole in my chest.The soft click of the door breaking the silence had me lifting my head. My mother stepped in, quiet but not tentative, tonight she looked… worn. Like my pain was her own and it was dragging her under too.She glanced at me first, th
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AARONHospitals have a smell. A sterile, hollow smell that clings to your skin and eats at your nerves. I’d hated it before, but now? Now, it felt personal.Because my wife—the fiercest, bravest, most infuriatingly stubborn woman I’ve ever known—was lying unconscious in one of these rooms, hooked up to tubes and monitors like her body had forgotten how to fight.And all I could do was watch.No boardroom, no empire, no billion-dollar deal had ever made me feel this helpless. I could buy the hospital, burn it down, rebuild it in her name… and it still wouldn’t matter if she didn’t wake up.I sat beside her bed, elbows braced on my knees, my hand locked around hers. I hadn’t let go since I’d pulled her out of that box. Not once. Every time a nurse came in and tried to move me, I gave them a look that made grown men freeze.They learned fast. Nobody touched my wife without going through me.Connor was pacing near the window, phone glued to his ear as he coordinated with Jane and the sear
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AARONFor a long, endless second, all I could do was stare at that crude wooden box buried beneath six feet of hell, my breath a sharp rasp in my throat. My heart was a drumbeat of terror, pounding so loud it drowned out every other sound in the forest.Colton’s hand brushed away the last of the dirt, revealing more of the casket’s surface, and something inside me cracked wide open.Because this? This was the moment I’d been living and dying for over the last sixty-two days. And it could go either way. My wife could be inside, alive but broken… or she could be gone.My fingers trembled as they hovered over the rough wood. For the first time in my life, I hesitated not out of fear for myself, but out of fear of what I might see.Colton glanced at me, his jaw tight. “Aaron…”I swallowed hard, my voice coming out as a hoarse whisper. “Help me open it.”Together, we clawed at the edges, prying the nailed lid loose, every second stretching into eternity. My hands were slick with dirt and s
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AARONThe second time her voice came through the phone, it tore me apart and stitched me back together in the same breath.“Hello?”“Aaron?” A sob ripped out of her, weak and broken. “Aaron, oh my God—”“Venus?” My voice cracked, a sound I didn’t know I could make. My hand clenched around the phone so hard my knuckles turned white. “Oh my God, Venus? Where are you? Who’s with you? Talk to me, baby. Please, talk to me.”“I don’t know,” she cried, words tumbling out in jagged pieces. “I don’t know where I am—Gerald, he—he took me, he—” She sounded shattered, barely holding on, and I swear the world tilted off its axis.And then chaos erupted on her end—a scuffle, a muffled cry—and the line went dead.The silence that followed wasn’t silence at all. It was the sound of my own pulse exploding in my ears. It was a thousand knives carving rage and fear into my bones.When I looked up, every eye in the room was on me. Connor. Sabine. My mother. They’d all heard it. They’d all heard her.“She
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VENUS The forest swallowed every sound except his footsteps and my sobs.Gerald’s hand was a vice around my wrist, yanking me forward so hard my shoulder screamed in protest. My legs stumbled to keep up, dragging through underbrush, every jagged rock and thorn slicing bare skin. My breath came out in ragged gasps, half from the sprint, half from terror clawing at my throat.“You—” his voice cracked, a harsh, unhinged rasp, “you couldn’t just stay put, could you?” He dragged me faster, branches whipping my face, the cabin looming closer with every staggering step. “I give you everything. I keep you safe. And you still… still try to run to him.”“Please,” I choked out, my voice shaking, desperate. “Gerald, just—listen to me—”He spun so fast I barely saw the movement before his hand cracked across my face. The sting bloomed hot, my ears ringing, my knees threatening to give out. He leaned in close, his breath ragged, his eyes wild, pupils blown wide like an animal driven to the edge.“
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