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Hospital Silence

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SKYLA

I came back to the world slowly, like surfacing from underwater with lungs full of cement. I ached all over. It felt like a serenade was throwing a party in my fucking head.

The air smelled like antiseptic, and something bitter. The lights were too white. The beep of machines echoed somewhere to my left. I tried to move, but my body wasn’t listening. It didn’t even cooperate.

My throat burned. My head throbbed.

Panic flickered through me... until I heard it.

A voice. Sharp. Angry. And way too familiar.

“Security was supposed to be tight. How did someone even get close enough to spike her drink? I need you to get me the list of every fucking waiter who served at the party that night, I need answers Ethan.”

Xavier.

I didn’t move. My body wouldn’t let me. But I listened, different emotions pulling in the pit of my stomach as I. listened in on his conversation, heart and mind racing in tandem. I honestly thought I was over this

“I don’t care about their protocol, Ethan,”
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