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Blood in the water

Author: Tabbie Quinn
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-01-23 17:02:12
Thirty days.

The words glowed through my cracked phone screen like a ticking time bomb. Thirty days to save the career I'd bled decades for. Thirty days while I could barely walk without my ribs grinding together like broken glass. While I still had this deafening grief. While Aurora walked free with that asshole. I kept staring at the email when my hospital door opened. Not a nurse or a doctor.

Xavier.

Not the broken, apologetic Xavier that I expected. Not the grieving husband or the remo
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