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Chapter 023

Penulis: I am Rohi
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VANESSA’S POV

Two Days After Surgery

The lights were too bright. Even with layers of gauze stitched over my eyes, I could feel the glare slicing into my skin. It burned. But I liked the burn. It reminded me I was alive. Reminded me that somewhere out there , she was still breathing.

White walls. White sheets. White air. It all smelled like metal and cheap soap… and her absence.

Nina. I exhaled slowly, my chest ached. Not from the surgery , that was nothing. The real pain sat deeper, in places medicine couldn’t reach. The kind of pain that builds slowly, like rot. The kind you grow used to. The kind that makes you dangerous.

They told me not to move. Not to rush recovery. But what did they know about pain? Real pain wasn’t blood or scalpels or swollen tissue. Real pain was knowing she was still out there.

Still alive. Still untouched by the full weight of what she deserved. That was pain.

I tilted my head, careful of the pull on my stitches, and smiled through cracked lip
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