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Chapter 13

Author: Celice Wylder
last update Last Updated: 2025-03-12 10:27:34

Madeleine

I fell asleep again after the doctor’s visit. His news was rather grim. Most of my injuries from the beating I took yesterday would heal just fine, but the poison is another story. He suspects that I might have permanent nerve damage.

He wants me to undergo further testing, but after I explained to him that I couldn’t pay for such expensive tests, he simply gave me an injection for the pain and left.

Now I’m wide awake and more wired than a bunny on meth. I am restless, not sure what to do with myself.

The doctor left a bottle of painkillers for me to take, but I haven’t needed it. He did say it’s only for the nerve pain, and since I don’t know what that’s supposed to feel like, I just left it.

He confirmed my own assertion that the best cure for the body aches after the beating is to move around as much as possible but to, in his words, “not overdo it, unless you want to end up in the hospital.”

After a few hours of dawdling in the bedroom with nothing much to do apart fro
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