Amelia Winter's POV I could not sleep that night. The FBI's offer played on repeat in my mind like a broken recording. New identities. New city. New life. Everything I built as Amelia Hartley was erased like it never existed. Maxwell sat beside my hospital room chair where I kept vigil over Lily. His presence was solid and warm but even he could not make this decision easier. Witness protection meant safety but it also meant losing everything I fought so hard to become. "Talk to me," Maxwell said quietly. "I can see you drowning in your own thoughts." "I do not know what to do," I admitted. My voice cracked. "If we testify without protection, Victor will come after us. Agent Torres showed us what he does to people who cross him. But if we take protection, I lose my career. I lose Eleanor. I lose Amelia Hartley and become nobody again." "You could never
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