"You were never marked."The words hung in the air between us like smoke I couldn't wave away. Dr. Hollins looked at me with something close to pity, and I hated it. I hated the fluorescent lights buzzing overhead, hated the antiseptic smell of the hospital room, hated how small my voice sounded when I asked him to run the test again.He did, and it came out as the saame result.Two years. I had spent two years believing Alden and I were bound by something sacred, something permanent. The mark was supposed to be proof, visible, undeniable. Except mine had never existed at all.I left the hospital in a daze, my injured arm throbbing in its sling, though the pain there felt distant compared to the emptiness spreading through my chest. The autumn air bit at my face as I walked to my car, and I remember thinking how strange it was that the world just kept going. People were buying coffee, checking their phones, laughing at something a friend said. Meanwhile, my entire life had just reveal
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