The days that followed were a gift.Not an easy gift—there were no miracles, no sudden recoveries, no happy endings waiting to rewrite the past. But there was time. Time for William to hold Clara's hand and whisper the words he'd kept locked inside for thirty years. Time for Ella to sit beside his bed and learn about the man he'd been before the world broke him. Time for the three of them to be a family, even if it was only for a little while.The doctors had been clear: William's heart was too damaged to recover. The attack had taken too much from him, left too little behind. He had weeks, maybe less. But he was awake, and he was aware, and he was finally, impossibly, at peace.Clara spent every day at his side. Her own condition had stabilized—the drug was working, for now—but she was still weak, still fragile, still fighting her own battle. Together, they made an unlikely pair: two broken people who'd been given a second chance they never expected.Ella watched them from the doorwa
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