INICIAR SESIÓNReed She shook her head sadly.“Pancreatic cancer is one of the most lethal cancers we know,” she explained. “It’s often called the ‘silent killer’ because symptoms rarely appear until it’s very advanced. If you’d come in much earlier, even for a routine checkup, we might have detected it in time t
ReedI couldn’t get Amber’s damn words out of my head.Her voice kept replaying long after she’d left the room. “Are you sick?” “You look different.”I’d scoffed at her earlier, thrown her concern back in her face like acid and yet the irritation wouldn’t leave me. Like her stupid comment had burrow
The numbers began ticking down mercilessly.“Go Amber!” he cheered, clapping like an enthusiastic partner at a sporting event. “Come on! You can do it! I believe in you!”The food blurred. My breaths came in ragged, wet gasps. I wasn’t even halfway through the plate, and my stomach already felt like
Amber My mind shattered.His words… slow poison… one hour… Evalie will die… ripped through me like a serrated blade, tearing something vital inside my chest. A sound tore out of me before I even realized I was making it: a distorted, broken scream, the kind a wounded animal makes when it watches it
AmberErlan led us down the hall as if we were honored guests instead of captives. His hand hovered close to my back, not touching, but close enough to make my skin crawl with the threat of contact. Evalie clung to my hand with both of hers, her little fingers cold and shaking.We reached a dining r
Reed’s eyes widened, fury flaring.“All you had to do was be a decent person,” I continued, heat rising in my chest. “And you could have been happy. Being born a Beta and into such a decent family, you had so much more than I ever could’ve imagined. You had everything I wanted and more. But you thre







