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Chapter 56

Author: Jessica wilson
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-07-22 00:31:26

Valentine's POV

The 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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