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Linnea

Author: Hassy_101
last update publish date: 2026-04-08 20:01:59

My strength was slipping faster from my limbs, my struggles grew weaker, turning into nothing more than small, helpless movements.

Somewhere above me, distant and detached, I heard Nanny Hagar’s voice.

“Pathetic.”

And just as my body began to go limp, the needle was gone and the bag was yanked off.

Air rushed towards me like a waterfall.

I sucked in a breath so violently it hurt, my lungs screaming as they filled too quickly.

I coughed, choked, gasped, my body trembling uncontrollably as I tri
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