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I arrived for my shift to find my name crossed out on the roster and replaced with a handwritten note in neat, medical handwriting: “Nurse on duty tonight: Dr. Patient 47. Orderly required for assistance.” I laughed nervously until I reached Ward C. Every other patient on the floor was unusually quiet. Some were standing at their doors, staring out with wide, vacant eyes. When I looked closer, I realized they were all trying to speak, but no sound came out. Their mouths opened and closed like fish, silently forming the same words over and over: “I’m the doctor.” I turned to run, but the corridor lights began to dim one by one, as if someone was walking toward me and turning them off delibera

Closing my eyes, I take a deep breath and then hold it for ten seconds. When I take another, I find that something feels different. I can sense a presence. Not wanting to really find out what is in the room with me, I pull the covers even higher over my head and I don’t open my eyes for nothing. Eventually, I drift off to sleep after I feel that the coast is clear, and my fears have subsided. However, I was not expecting to feel a very cold hand on my arm in the middle of the night, but when I do I start to shake severely.

“You’re depleted after everything we just did. We can try again in the morning. There’s no rush. I’m not trying to get the ship off the ground right now.” Disappointment sinks through me, but also acceptance. I am exhausted. My limbs feel like dead weights and the rest of me just feels…heavy. Slow. “Fine,” I say, sitting back on the bed. “I’ll wait until morning. But I promise, I’m going to break you free tomorrow.” Valen offers a small smile. “I know you will. You stay here. I’m going to go make you some food.” He presses a kiss to my forehead before climbing out of the bed and walking toward the door.

Seven in the morning, which was deliberate, the hour of someone who has thought about when to come and has chosen the time that communicated seriousness without desperation, the hour of someone who had something practical to offer and understood that practical things belonged to the morning. I had not slept well. Not from fear, the threat was filed and the security was doubled and Leo had eaten his body weight in pancakes the previous evening and had gone to bed with Gerald under his arm and the absolute, untroubled equanimity of a child whose world was entirely safe and who had no reason to believe otherwise. I had not slept because the day had been sixty-three chapters of buildup arriving

Knowing exactly what they’re doing to me. I’d already crossed off one and three. The midnight swim had left salt crystals dried in places that still tingled when I thought about it. The tiny crescent moon inked beneath my left breast itched faintly under the silk camisole I wore now, a reminder that I was capable of reckless things when the moon was right. But number seven… Number seven had been mocking me every morning for two weeks. Tonight it wasn’t mocking. Tonight it was breathing down my neck. His name was Julian.

"Every message you've sent me over the years, I've gone back and read every single one." "The ones I didn't reply to before, I'm answering them one by one now." "The photo of the coffee art you sent was beautiful. That album you recommended... I listened to it. It's very calming. And the sunsets you photographed, I've saved all of them." "Chloe, I know I was wrong. I'm willing to change. Whatever else you want, just name it." A wave of dizziness washed over me. I had waited seven years to hear those words.

(POV: ALEXANDER THORNE) After restraining the advance of my own body and denying us both the final consummation of that night, I did not allow her to get off that bed immediately. I pulled the little bird's full body against my bare chest, covering us both with booth seven's dark sheet. She was exhausted, her breathing gradually returning to its normal rhythm as she settled into the crook of my arms. I closed my eyes, feeling the scent of wild berries stamped into my skin, and for the first time in months, sleep came without the torment of past images or chronic insomnia. I slept in a peaceful, heavy way—a deep rest I had forgotten existed.

Jeremy had locked me in a room to reflect, and he did not let me out for a long while. I had to endure the pain from my illness. Seven years ago, he braced the heavy rain and found me. My family had just gone bankrupt and I was ill. Back then, he was my savior who brought me hope. However, that hope eventually turned to poison. My phone buzzed. It was a text message from Bailey. [Are you interested in a bet against me?] After reading her proposed bet, I glanced at Jeremy, who had walked away. [Sure.]

Data that used to be easily understood at a glance, now crawls chaotically on the white paper like tadpoles. He raised his hand and rubbed his forehead, saying to James beside him, "I'm going to sleep, wake me up at seven in the evening." "Okay." Hunter's insomnia has always been very severe, and in the past few days, he has also been suffering from insomnia, with faint dark circles under his eyelids. Lying on the bed in the lounge, probably because he was in a good mood this time, he closed his eyes and fell asleep. He often dreamed of past events, dreaming of those chaotic entanglements.

Chapter 5 Offer *** POV: Shea Vestine She had been having trouble sleeping that night because all that was running through her mind was Denver’s words. But what’s more, making her damn sleepless was his letter before she even went home. *** Flashback… Her mind was drifting away, and she had no idea how to deal with it. Little did she know that her chaotic state could be even more chaotic than it had already been because she had received a small note on slipping into her small clutch bag.