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Chapter 88

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Amelia’s POV

The sound of my boots clicking against the hardwood floor of the nursery carried a strange, heavy echo as I packed our travel bags.

Every single item I folded into the leather rucksack... extra blankets, wool onesies, glass bottles of warm milk... pulled a sharp, uninvited memory straight to the surface.

I remembered lying on a cold steel table in Victor’s underground facility, shivering in my own skin while my bones burned with a fever no doctor could diagnose. The parallel press
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    Lucas’ POVI leaned my shoulder against the doorframe, watching my wife navigate the delicate conversation with a steadiness that still managed to catch me off guard.Months ago, I had met a frightened, dying woman in a smoky bar who fought off every attempt to help her with teeth and claws. Now, she sat calmly in a sterile hospital room, leaning over a stranger’s bed with an infinite well of patience, offering the kind of raw, undeniable truth no doctor had ever given me.“I don’t expect you to believe me right away, Josie,” Amelia said, keeping her voice soft as she sat beside the metal railing. “When I started blacking out and my body began burning up from the inside, I thought I was losing my mind.”Josie pulled her thin blanket higher up around her shoulders, her dark eyes darting between Amelia and me. “The doctors told me it was stress. They said my brain was misfiring because I was taking too many advanced classes at college.”“They told me the exact same thing,” Amelia replie

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