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ELENA

I don’t know how long I stayed like that, curled up, staring at nothing, feeling everything. Time lost its shape. Minutes stretched, hours collapsed. My thoughts moved in vicious little circles, each one ending the same way.

You were taken.

Not adopted. Not rescued.

Taken.

I rolled onto my back and stared at the ceiling again, blinking hard because my eyes burned. Crying felt useless now. Tears didn’t soften the truth, they just made it soggier, harder to hold without tearing.

A soft knock came again, more hesitant this time.

“Elena,” my mother said quietly. “Please… just let me know you’re okay.”

I let out a humorless breath.

Okay. What a flexible word.

“I’m alive,” I called back. “Does that count?”

Silence. Then the faint sound of her sitting down outside my door. She wasn’t leaving this time.

“I never wanted you to feel like this,” Cathy said. “I swear to you, I never did.”

I closed my eyes.

“That’s the problem, Mom,” I said. “Everyone keeps swearing things to me, but no one
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