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CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: RECOVERY
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2026-06-22 18:40:00ISLA POV
The clinic was nothing like a real hospital.
It was a private facility on the edge of the city hidden behind a row of old warehouses and accessed through a narrow alley that most people would miss.
The sign above the door read Wellington Medical in faded gold letters but there was no emergency room, no waiting area, no bright lights or bustling nurses.
Kai had made the call the night we arrived
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