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Chapter 113

Penulis: A. Leilani
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-02-25 12:04:18

Chapter 113

RIVERA

The nurse looked at me for a moment, then nodded once and spoke quietly into her radio as we moved through the bay doors.

The trauma unit was in its mid-afternoon configuration—busy but not overwhelmed, the shift that I knew from Bianca's schedule descriptions as her most common working hours. I'd memorized her schedule without meaning to. It was the kind of thing you did when someone became essential to your daily existence.

They moved Louis into a bay—not the main trauma ba
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