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Chapter 11: Take care of my friend

작가: Luciana diamond
last update 최신 업데이트: 2025-07-09 00:35:53

The steady beep of a heart monitor ticked in the background, faint but insistent, like a reminder that time hadn’t stopped—even if her body had tried to.

Anna blinked, groggy.

The ceiling above her was a soft blur, lights dimmed to a golden wash that cast the room in a kind of muted hush. She shifted and a dull, blooming ache curled through her stomach. Her fingers twitched, bumping the tug of an IV taped neatly to the back of her hand. The tube stretched upward, fluid dripping down with a rhythm that made her nauseous.

Her wrist looked pale. Fragile. Like someone else’s arm.

She turned her head.

The room was still. Private. Too quiet for a normal hospital. The kind of quiet that cost money. Floor-to-ceiling curtains hung neatly at the tall windows. The recliner beside her bed was leather—not vinyl. The sheets? Soft, like Egyptian cotton, not the usual scratchy hospital blend.

What the hell?

VIP suite.

Her brows pinched together. How?

And then she saw him.

Gerald.

Slouched in the chai
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