Chapter 32 Hospitals always smelled the same clean, sharp, unforgiving. Jaden noticed it immediately, the way the scent clung to his clothes as soon as he stepped inside, like a warning he couldn’t ignore. The fluorescent lights overhead hummed softly, casting everything in pale white that made faces look tired, hollow. Too honest. Trisha walked a few steps ahead of him, shoulders tense, arms wrapped tightly around herself as if she might shatter if she didn’t hold on. Her eyes were swollen from crying, lashes clumped together, but she kept moving, one foot in front of the other, like stopping would mean accepting something she wasn’t ready to. Neither of them spoke. The doctor led them down a long hallway. Each step felt heavier than the last. Jaden’s heartbeat pounded in his ears, loud enough to drown out the distant beeping of machines, the muffled conversations behind closed doors. Please let her be okay, he thought, over and over, like a prayer he didn’t know if he deserve
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