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Chapter 247

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Chapter 247

The whisper slid into my ear like liquid poison, cold and corrosive, seeping through the layers of my sleep until it hit the raw nerves of my subconscious.

​“Elena.”

​My eyes flew open, but for a terrifying heartbeat, the world remained a distorted smear of shadows. My mind, sluggish from the heavy cocktail of hospital-grade sedatives and the lingering exhaustion of three near-death experiences, refused to process the reality of the room. The air was thick with the sterile, cloying scent of antiseptic and something sharper—the metallic tang of blood and the scent of the winter night clinging to a wool coat.

​The hospital room was bathed in the eerie, rhythmic pulse of dim red emergency lighting. To my left, the heart monitor chirped with a steady, oblivious rhythm, a cruel contrast to the frantic drumbeat starting up behind my ribs. The shadows on the walls weren't just long; they were alive, stretching across the ceiling like grasping fingers.

​Then I felt the presen
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