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Chapter 248

Author: Selome
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Chapter 248

​I tried to thrash, to throw my body off the bed, but my anatomy was a traitor. My injured shoulder flared with white-hot agony at the slightest twitch, and my legs felt like lead weights. Stitched together by surgeons and held together by sheer willpower, I was nothing more than a captive audience. Tears, hot and uncontrollable, blurred my vision, spilling over my lower lids and soaking into the tape.

​She was here. In the one place I was supposed to be safe.

​Mia didn't look like a villain. She looked like the girl who had sat next to me in AP English, the one who had helped me pick out my prom dress. She sat on the edge of my bed, the mattress dipping significantly under her weight, making the small hospital room feel like it was shrinking, the walls inching closer with every breath she took.

​She crossed her legs elegantly, smoothing the fabric of her dark trousers. She looked like she was settling in for a long-awaited heart-to-heart, a glass of wine away from
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