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Chapter 42

Author: Lois
last update publish date: 2026-04-14 07:00:29
Tate's POV

I don't sleep, instead I sit on the edge of the bed with the lamp off and go through it from the beginning. Every corridor, every session, every morning she handed me coffee outside Tracy's door with her eyes somewhere past my shoulder.

The green contacts, the platinum hair. The clipboard she held like a shield. Nicole.

I press the heel of my hand to my forehead and sit with that word for a moment, because my brain keeps sliding off it like it's too large to hold.

Nicole is alive.
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