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Chapter 19

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Chapter 19

ANNALISA

Eli was breathing.

That was the first thing Nurse Dael told me when I came through the door of the medical wing, and I held onto those three words and did not let go of them for a long time. He was breathing. He was stable. He was sitting up against the pillows with the small pulse monitor clipped to his finger and he looked tired in the way he always did after an episode, wrung out and quieter than usual, but his eyes found me the moment I walked in and that was enough.

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