Chapter 43Ava's POV Lorenzo shut the door behind him but the night stayed with me.It sat on my chest, heavy, unmoving, as though the darkness had weight. The lamp beside my bed cast a weak yellow circle on the floor. Elena had changed the curtains and had the windows closed to stop the wind from getting in when it began to rain.My fingers hovered over the box barely touching it. The shoe box. It was softened at the edges, taped once, twice, then again like she’d been afraid it might fall apart if she didn’t secure it properly.I stared at it until my eyes burned with tears again.Why did she leave this for me?My throat felt dry. The space around me smelled faintly of my cologne and antiseptic, the same smell that clung to her clothes at the hospice. I could still hear the machines being turned off in my head. The long, flat sound. The silence that followed.My fingers curled into the blanket.Medical papers. A list of people. A place I kept seeing over and over again like an it
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