AuroraDecember 6, 2025The first thing I registered around me wasn’t a sound or sight. It was the smell. A sharp, biting smell of bleach and the underlying metallic scent that only lies in hospitals. It felt cold in my nostrils, scratching at the back of my throat.I tried to pull in a deep breath, but my lungs felt like iron bands were squeezing them. Memory hit me like a physical blow, rushing to my head like flashes. The crash, the dagger pressed against my neck, the threats, and then Leon’s arrival.“Noel,” I screamed my son’s name and tried to jerk up, but a white-hot flash of pain exploded behind my eyes, pinning me back against the pillows. My heart pounded hard against my chest, and the rapid beep-beep-beep of a monitor nearby made it clear that I was indeed in a hospital.Leon must have brought me here, I thought.“Noel,” I muttered my son’s name and fluttered my eyes open to a dimly lit room.“Noel is right here, Aurora.” A familiar soft sound came beside me on my left sid
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