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Chapter Fifty Two

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Lila

It was still dark when the phone rang.

I startled awake, heart thudding, disoriented by the warmth of Luca’s arms around me. For one sweet moment, I didn’t remember where I was. I didn’t remember anything except the slow rise and fall of his breathing and the heaviness of his body curved protectively around mine.

Then the phone rang again, insistent.

I slipped carefully out of his embrace, my chest tightening as he murmured something in his sleep and turned onto his side. I paused, watching the way his hand searched blindly across the sheets for me.

A part of me wanted to crawl back into his arms, pretend nothing was happening beyond this room.

But the phone wouldn’t stop.

I found it on the nightstand and answered with shaking hands.

“Hello?”

“Miss Hart?” It was the nurse Mara, the one who always called when things were bad enough to break protocol.

I closed my eyes. “What is it?”

“It’s your mother. Her breathing has become labored, and her vitals are unstable. The doctor believes
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