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Bed Of Pain And Alcohol

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Daniel’s POV

My hands trembled so badly I nearly dropped the phone.

The photos weren’t blurry. They weren’t rumors or whispers you could shrug off and hope would fade. They were sharp. Cruel. Alive in the way they told the story I’d spent weeks trying to bury.

Me.

River.

Us.

The screen burned in my hands. My stomach lurched, twisting so violently I thought I’d be sick right there in the middle of the hotel lounge. The room tilted, the floor shifting like someone had yanked it out from under me.

This wasn’t whispers behind closed doors anymore. This wasn’t Olivia’s fury, contained in the four walls of our house. It wasn’t River cutting me off with a simple block.

This was now public and now, in every site or blogs.

By now, anyone with an internet connection knew.

I pressed a palm to my face, dragging it slowly down like I could peel the panic off. My skin felt hot, feverish, damp with sweat I hadn’t realized was there.

What would this mean for me? For the university? For Elliot?

For Ri
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