Chapter 39 A thick, suffocating silence descended upon Cassie’s small hospital cubicle after Georgia’s departure, heavier than the sterile air that clung to everything. Cassie felt bruised, not just from her fall, but from the sharp edges of Georgia’s accusations, each word a carefully aimed shard of glass. She immediately texted Michael, a brief, almost frantic message, a shield against the possibility of Jacob’s return after his mother’s visit. The emotional fallout was too significant, the swirling vortex of doubt and confusion too intense to navigate with anyone who wasn't intimately familiar with the tempest raging within her own mind. She needed Michael, her anchor, the one person she trusted implicitly to help her sift through the debris of Georgia’s pronouncements and discern some semblance of truth. The encounter with Georgia had shattered the fragile image of a peaceful reunion Cassie had nurtured in her mind. Instead, it had been an ambush, Georgia’s words weaponized truth
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