Evangeline's POVIt's a man’s voice, urgent, almost angry, laced with something that prickled against my skin in recognition. I knew him. My heart stuttered, tripping over itself as I strained to place the memory, but my body betrayed me — heavy, chained to this sterile bed with wires and tubes that sang my weakness in rhythmic beeps.“We… can’t risk moving her again,” he said, firmer this time. “If you do, you might kill her.”The muffled reply was lost under the steady hiss of oxygen, but my pulse throbbed against my ears. That voice. I clung to it, trying to thread it back to the moments before the blood, before the darkness swallowed me.Damien.No. Not Damien. My chest tightened. It wasn’t him. I would know his voice anywhere, burned into me like fire. This one was sharper, clipped, carrying authority instead of desperation. Familiar, yes, but distant like someone I’d known in another life.I wanted to shout but when I opened my mouth, only a rasp slipped free, swallowed whole by
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