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Chapter 5

Author: Washing
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The blaze illuminated the hospital like daylight, heat waves surging upward.

Calvin stumbled, disbelief etched on his face. He rushed to the window, seeing only the truck's twisted wreckage engulfed in flames. No trace of me remained.

Anna screamed, staring at her empty hands. Her voice choked into gasps of terror. "It wasn't me! She jumped! She did it herself!"

Calvin whirled on her, seizing her shoulders with crushing force. "You pushed her, didn't you? What did you do?"

"I didn't!" Anna shook her head frantically, tears and snot streaking her face. "She provoked me and jumped. You gotta believe me."

Deborah arrived, her face paling at the sight below and Anna's distress. But her composure returned swiftly, and she snapped at the bodyguards, "What are you standing there for? Seal off the news! Check downstairs and find her, alive or dead!"

The fire was too fierce. When firefighters extinguished it, only a charred, unrecognizable corpse remained in the wreckage.

I woke up
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