broken pieces

The room was quiet.Too quiet.Saria lay awake, staring at the pale ceiling of the hospital room. The beeping of the heart monitor had become the only thing keeping her company since Dan and Lucas had been escorted out after their heated argument.Neither man had left her mind.One claimed to be her husband.The other claimed she had been planning to leave that husband.Which one was telling the truth?Or was neither of them innocent?A soft knock interrupted her thoughts.The nurse entered with a warm smile.“Good morning, Miss Ben. How are you feeling today?”“My body aches less,” Saria admitted. “But my head…” She pressed two fingers against her temple. “It feels like there’s a locked door inside my mind.”The nurse nodded sympathetically.“That’s common with memory loss.Don’t force yourself to remember.Sometimes memories return when you least expect them.”“When I least expect them…”The words echoed in Saria's head.She thanked the nurse, who checked her bandages before leav

The hospital corridor erupted into chaos.Doctors and nurses rushed from room to room while security officers searched every exit.But the man with the scar had vanished.It was as though he had never been there.Saria sat frozen on the hospital bed, her hands wrapped tightly around the blanket.She could still see the syringe.Still hear the nurse’s trembling voice.It would have stopped her heart within minutes.Someone wanted her dead.The terrifying part wasn’t that someone had tried to kill her.It was that they had failed before.The car accident hadn’t been an accident at all.“You can’t stay here anymore.”The voice belonged to Detective Noah Zayes.He stood near the door, flipping through a thin file containing Saria’s medical records.He was in his early thirties, dressed in a black suit instead of a police uniform, with observant hazel eyes that seemed to miss nothing.“I’m assigning officers outside your room until you’re discharged,” he said.Dan folded his arms.“My priva

The explosion echoed through the hospital like rolling thunder. The floor trembled beneath Saria’s feet. Smoke poured into the corridor, swallowing the flashing emergency lights until everything was painted in an eerie crimson glow. People screamed. Doctors shouted orders. Patients cried for help. Lucas tightened his grip on Saria’s hand. “We have to leave. Now.” He led her into the hallway. The police officer assigned to protect her rushed toward them. “Mr. Red!” the officer shouted. “Take Miss Ben to the emergency exit. I’ll check the east wing.” Lucas nodded. “Be careful.” The officer disappeared into the thick smoke. Saria looked around in panic. “Where’s Dan?” “I don’t know.” Lucas’s answer came too quickly. “We don’t have time to look for him.” Before Saria could respond, another explosion shook the building. The ceiling cracked. Pieces of concrete crashed onto the floor behind them. Lucas shielded her instinctively. “Run!” They hurried down the corrido

The room fell silent.Saria stared at the photograph of the gravestone. In Loving Memory of Adria Her fingers crossed tightened around the edge of the desk until her knuckles turned pale. “They buried her”The words dropped from her lips before she could stop them. Detective Noah frowned sharply.“What did you say?” Saria blinked, as if waking from a dream. “I..I don’t know.”“It just… came out.” Lucas exchanged a glance with detective Noah Both of them noticed it immediately. She hadn’t said I. She had said her. As if Adria was someone separate from herself. As if Saria was remembering a life that did not belong to her. Noah carefully gathered the photographs back into a sealed folder.lf“I need to get this to the station,” he said firmly. “We are outlining where this portrait came from.” “And those flowers someone left there intentionally. That means this is not random.” Lucas stepped forward. “I will stay with Saria.” Dan immediately moved as well. “So will I.”

Rain drummed against its roof.Inside, the elegant woman lowered her phone and stared through the windshield.Far ahead, police lights flashed between the trees.Saria was still alive.That was not supposed to happen.The woman slowly tightened her fingers around the phone.“She remembers nothing yet,” the voice on the other end said.The woman’s expression hardened.“She doesn’t need to remember everything.”A pause.She only needs to remember one thing.What?The woman looked toward the forest.“The money.”Silence followed.Then the voice asked carefully, “And if she remembers?”The woman’s eyes darkened.“Then all of us fall.”She ended the call.For several seconds, she remained perfectly still.Then she whispered to herself,“You should have stayed forgotten.”She started the engine.The SUV disappeared into the darkness before anyone noticed it had been there.Across the forest, Saria sat inside the back of the police vehicle, wrapped in a blanket.She couldn’t stop staring at