Adrian’s POVThe hospital alert hit my phone like a physical shove.For a second I just stared at the screen, trying to make the words behave like something normal. The last word on the line was the only one that mattered to me.Leo.Aria saw my face change before I said anything. She was still at the console, one hand braced on the damaged frame, the other moving through the broken sequence with the kind of focus that only comes when a person is too scared to stop working. Julian was already halfway to the side door, scanning the corridor and listening for movement outside.“What is it?” Aria asked.I handed her the phone without speaking.Her eyes moved once across the screen, then widened in a way I had only seen when the world had already gone too far.“The hospital,” she said, almost flatly.“Yes.”Julian came back toward us immediately. “They are hitting the recovery wing?”“That is what the alert says.”Aria’s face drained of color. She looked from the screen to Leo in my arms
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