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Chapter 8

Author: Kennywrites
last update publish date: 2026-06-24 17:04:52
For four days, Adrian honored Sophia's banishment. He hated every minute of it. He stayed away anyway.

He called the hospital every few hours, a ritual that had replaced sleep. The nurses were polite and gave him exactly as much as protocol allowed. stable, resting, no change and nothing more. He
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    Adrian watched him sleep. Sophia watched the monitor. After a while she looked away from the monitor and looked at Adrian. She said, quietly: "Tonight. What you did." He waited. "You came through the door before I called for you. You took his hand and you asked the right questions and you read

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