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Chapter 24

Author: Jessica wilson
last update Last Updated: 2025-05-22 19:56:45

Valentine's Pov

The email stared back at me like an alarm I had never set.

Reminder: Fall Semester Begins Next Week – Please Verify Your Enrollment.

I stared at it for what seemed like hours, not budging. My fingers rested on the screen, but I didn't click, didn't delete, didn't even flinch. I just…stared. It wasn't that I hadn't expected school to resume. It was the fourth week of semester break. But somehow, with everything that was happening—the chaos, the trips to the hospital, the brawls, the times that I quietly felt my life being threatened, I had forgotten I'm a student, too.

I sighed and dropped the phone on the bed beside me.

The journey to the hospital yesterday came into my mind. Oliver had been better, a lot better. The doctor had finally cracked a smile since this hell began and told me that my brother would be out by the weekend. A few more tests as a precautionary measure, but all was well. I remember thanking him, my throat too constricted to utter much more. I had we
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