Mia’s POVMy eyes fluttered open, vision blurry as my head pounded like a blacksmith’s hammer on an anvil. My shoulder burned, the bandage wrapped tight, its rough edges digging into my skin as if whoever bound it did so with spite. Each breath I took felt like a blade, slicing deep into my bones, the pain a searing fire that refused to fade. I clenched my teeth, tears slipping down my cheeks, my body trembling on the bed’s smooth silk sheets. I tried to shift position, to ease the ache, but it got worse, forcing a scream from me, my throat catching as if it might choke me. I was in a hospital but the pain all seemed unattended to. “Help,” I whispered, my voice a broken sob, barely audible, my body too scared to move because of the pain that felt like a beast pinning me to the mattress and eating my internal organs.What had happened? My mind clawed through the fog, piecing together fragments. Then I remembered….Lucas. I had poisoned him, my lips forcing the toxin into his mout
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