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Valentine povSubject: Suspension Removed – Resumption on MondayFrom: Office of the RegistrarTo: Miss Valentine CraigDate: Friday, [Insert Date]Time: 09:12 AMDear Miss Craig,We wish this message finds you in a good spirit.This serves to formally notify you of the revocation of your suspension from [University Name] after the final review by the disciplinary committee. We appreciate second chances and think that you will utilize this second chance to demonstrate unyielding academic commitment and integrity.You are thus obligated to resume academic activities on Monday, [Insert Date], and report to the Department of Student Affairs by 8:00 AM for clearance and official reinstatement.Take with you your student ID card and pending documents as specified in previous messages.We welcome you back to campus life and further success in studies.Warm regards,Mrs. Sylvia GoldRegistrar[University Name]---I read the email once. Then twice. And a third time. But no matter how many ti
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Valentine's POVThe hospital couch was unforgiving beneath me, the type that neither sleep nor comfort invited. Or maybe it was my restless mind. I was curled into the corner of the chair, Adrian's hoodie from last night still clinging to my body like a second skin, although its smell had faded and mixed with the air of the room. The creases clung to me more from habit than heat. I had not slept last night. I had only been struggling between bouts of fitful sleeping and searing memories that tore their way into my half-awake mind.The steady beeping of the monitor was the only sign of time passing. Every time the phone beeped, I was reminded that he was there with me and that I was not alone but it did not comfort me as it should. Instead, it aggravated the ache in my chest, the way my bones ached like they were trembling with all that I was yet to allow myself to feel. He had seen Adrian and me in so much crisis lately, plotting around us and I worried it was going to get into his he
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Adrian's PovI drove like a madman as I turned around and tore out of the hospital parking lot, tires screaming in protest. The city whizzed by in blurs of cold neon and blackness, but I saw little of it. My knuckles were pressed hard against the steering wheel, my jaw clenched so tight it hurt. My chest heaved with every breath, my heart slamming wildly as the full force of all she'd said crashed down on me.How could she have made this all about me when she was the one who had also gotten it wrong from the beginning?She was the one with secrets. She was the one keeping them. She was the one with a phone hidden under her bed and all these strange questions she would not answer.So why the hell did she get to pretend like I was the villain?The pain of her betrayal twisted something in me, but beneath that anger, seething like a wound I didn't dare examine too well, was guilt. A crushing, stifling guilt that would not be dispelled no matter how hard I tried to justify what I had done
The Billionaire’s Contract Bride Chapter 54
Valentine's POVThe air was still, the kind of stillness that sounded almost like a scream muffled under the weight of too much unspoken words. The soft beep of the machine beside Oliver's bed was the only noise working its way through the silence, perpetual and indifferent to the storm seething inches from its proximity.Adrian had once again slept in the chair, sprawling uncomfortably with his arms crossed over his chest and his jaw set in a half-doze, as if asleep still, he was still fighting something. Himself, maybe.I sat frozen, hugging my knees in the thin couch against the wall, the hoodie he'd tossed over me before still draped around my shoulders like a ghostly reminder of his warmth. The small act of charity shouldn't have mattered, but it did. And that infuriated me more than anything else.Because I couldn't help thinking about that fucking video. And him. And Don. Everything actually.They looked like they were partners, co-conspirators. It made me feel crawly. For how
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Adrian's POVThe ward smelt strongly of antiseptic and lemon fresh. The monitors beside Oliver's bed beeped softly, when I stepped in and Valentine was slumped in the visitor's chair lost in thought and looking like she had seen a ghost. Her hands were folded over the top of her knees, and her eyes were heavy with exhaustion, but her shoulders stayed squared."Val," I whispered, coming into the room. "I want to go home and pick up a few things for Oliver. Do you have something you need me to bring back for you?"She looked up at me slowly with an unreadable expression on her face. "No, I'm fine."I nodded in understanding and took a deep breathm There was a pause between us that chilled the air more than it should have. I moved over to Oliver and smoothed a hand through his hair. He was fast asleep now, a blanket pulled up over his chest. After what had just happened, I couldn't bear to look away from him for too long but I had to go.As I left the hospital and headed back to my car,
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Adrian's POVShe didn’t know I had seen it but it didn't change the fact that this made everything more complicated.As I entered the ward, arms stuffed with Oliver's pajamas,his favorite comic books, and Valentine's hoodie clutched under my elbow, I tried my best to keep a straight face. She was sitting next to Oliver, idly stroking his hand, her other arm wrapped around herself as if holding the fragments of her world in place. As she looked up and offered me a gentle, weary nod, I nodded back. My lips opened to say something but nothing worthwhile escaped."Hi," I managed. "Got his pajamas… his favorite comic as well. And your hoodie."She blinked. "I said I didn't need anything."I shrugged slightly. "Took a chance. Figured you would eventually."She didn't say thank you. She simply just reached for the hoodie, set it carefully on her lap, and went back to watching Oliver as if the world outside didn't exist.It killed me.I was sitting in the corner, pretending to scroll through
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