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BOOK 2 - CHAPTER 8 - THE FINGER

Auteur: Sire Bliss
last update Date de publication: 2026-11-07 00:14:22

Three days after the memories came back, I stopped trying to move during the day.

It wasn't working. Every attempt I made when the light was on and people were near burned through me like a wire shorting out, all will and no result, my brain screaming at a hand that had forgotten how to listen. I'd lie there straining until my vision spotted and my pulse spiked on the monitor, and then I'd have to stop because the nurse would notice the spike and come check, and checking meant touching, meant a
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