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Chapter 72 — Where the Shadow Takes Root

Author: Déesse
last update Last Updated: 2025-09-04 01:27:34

Cassandra

Everything is white.

Everything is too white.

The ceiling spins above me, like a raging sea. The neon lights assault my eyes. My whole body pulses to the rhythm of a pain that finally, I no longer need to feign.

The stretcher glides, sounds crack: metal, wheels, screams, slamming doors. A doctor speaks too fast. A nurse barely responds. They whisper the word emergency.

I let them bustle.

I, I still play. I know when to be silent, when to tremble, when to let the tears flow on their own.

I am a destroyed woman. A grieving mother.

That’s what they must see.

And they see it.

I see it in their eyes.

But it’s him, him I’m waiting for.

Alexandre, he’s coming, finally.

I feel his ragged breath before I even see his face. He leans over me like a castaway clinging to a plank. His hands grab mine, the ones I stained with my own blood just minutes earlier.

— I’m here… I’m here, my love…

I don’t even need to force the tears. They come, on their own, carryin
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