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Chapter 19

Author: Celice Wylder
last update Last Updated: 2025-03-18 23:51:41
Madeleine

It takes me a long, long time to wake up. It’s as if someone stuffed my head full of cotton and magnets are pulling my eyelids shut.

I’m vaguely aware of the soft beeping of a machine, and my right hand itches something fierce.

Betsy!

My eyes fly open, and I stare straight up at a white ceiling.

Where am I?

Home. I must be home. But my apartment doesn’t have nice, clean ceilings like this.

I have to get Betsy to school. It must be late. If she’s late again, they’re going to call me in. This time they might expel her.

I groan softly and try to sit up.

“Cara?” Rafael’s voice cuts through the confusion, and then I feel his warm hands on my brow. “She’s awake!” he calls out.

“Whu-” my throat is dry and scratchy, my lips numb.

“You are in the hospital.”

“Whu?” I ask again.

“Sh-sh. Don’t talk. Wait for the doctor.”

“Ha-ppened. Wha- happened?”

I look up at his handsome face, but it’s as if I’m trying to pierce through a white veil. He isn’t in focus. I can feel him, though. His han
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