Sienna's POV Noah was already smiling when I reached him, his medicine bag swinging at his side, easy, unhurried. I needed a second to believe he was real. "I can still remember you, Sienna." Five words, and they hit before I could brace. I bowed my head, and his hand found my shoulder—warm, steady, nothing like the rest of this room. "Thank you for coming." I looked up. "Will he live?" He was already past me, kneeling where Damien held George's weight against his chest, two fingers pressed to the throat. Noah's face didn't hide what he found there. "Critical," he said, and paused before he finished it. "Worse than I'd like." George's eyes kept sinking, his lashes heavy, fighting to stay open. I dropped to the marble and took his face in both hands. "There has to be something. Some way." "Lily." Just that, at first. Then his mouth worked again, slow, each word costing him something he didn't have to spend. "You... lied to me." It went through me before I understood why. He'd
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