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Chapter 105: The first and last

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Serena’s POV

The small brown prescription bottle was tucked under a stack of folded linen at the back of my nightstand drawer, exactly where I had left it the night before.

I sat on the edge of the bed with the curtains only half open, letting rays of morning light fall across the room.

The bottle felt almost weightless in my palm. Elena’s name was printed neatly across the label, along with instructions I had already read so many times I no longer needed to look at them.

I turned it over once
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