Chapter 68: need to breath Caroline POV One Week Later… The pricking pains on my skin had finally faded, leaving only a dull echo beneath my skin, a reminder of how I survived death. My body had healed, but my heart... Well, that was another story. I sat quietly in front of the mirror, brushing my long hair with slow, deliberate strokes. The golden sunlight spilled lazily through the wide-open windows, but instead of warmth, it brought a strange kind of stillness and unusual tightness. Behind me, Daphne folded clothes into a chest, her movements a little too stiff and deliberate. She has been quiet lately. Too quiet ever since she came back from the family meeting that was held seven days ago. Knowing Daphne too well, She wasn’t herself, and from time to time, her eyes would flicker to me, and every time I caught her eyes, she would avert it immediately. But the little moment our eyes had met, I saw something hiding behind her usual cheer, something distant… haunted. “Are
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