The rhythmic beeping of a heart monitor pulsed through the dim hospital room like a fragile thread holding back the silence.Damon Thorne stood at the doorway, bruised, bandaged, and still limping from a cracked rib. Pain throbbed through his side with every breath, but he barely felt it. Not while she lay there.Juliette.She looked impossibly pale against the white sheets, her shoulder wrapped in thick gauze, IV lines threading from her arm like veins of glass. Oxygen hissed softly at her bedside, keeping her breathing steady - barely.The sniper’s bullet had torn through her, nearly severing her artery.And yet, she had survived.Damon stepped in slowly, each movement deliberate. The war might have ended in fire and betrayal, but in this room, time stood still. It was just her and him, and the terrifying possibility that she might not wake.He reached for her hand. Cold, but alive.“You held on,” he whispered, swallowing hard. “You're strong, stubborn, active, and impossible to und
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