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Chapter 37 - Ofelia

Author: Bryant
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The hospital’s fluorescent lights hit different the morning after great sex.

I was bone-tired, sure, physically stretched and emotionally undone, but there was a distinct hum under my skin. Like a current. Like my body remembered every way Zach had touched it and wasn’t quite ready to return to normal programming. This made reviewing patient intake notes more difficult than usual.

Focus, Ofelia.

I leaned over my tablet, stylus in hand, forcing myself to read and re-read Mrs. Novak’s symptom log for the third time. I was about to enter an observation note when my phone buzzed in my scrub pocket.

It was from Xenia.

Xenia: Girl, you need to see this

Screenshot attached.

I sighed, slid it open, and immediately felt my teeth grind together.

Jane Burns, social media poet and delusional menace, had posted something to her private account. The caption, stark against a black-and-white photo of clouds over Newark, read:

“Some people confuse obsession with devotion. One of us still knows the di
Bryant

Jane, your crazy days are numbered. Makayla will find all your dirty secrets and use them to bring you down!

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