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Chapter 47: A Familiar Stranger

Author: Mira Lane
last update publish date: 2026-04-12 15:32:28

Liam POV

The hospital room was too white.

Too clean.

Too lifeless in a way that made everything inside it feel heavier than it should be.

The faint smell of antiseptic clung to the air—sharp, cold, and clinical—reminding me this wasn’t a place people came to live. It was where they came when something had already gone wrong.

The only sound was the steady beep of the monitor.

Beep… beep… beep…

Like a fragile heartbeat holding everything together.

On the bed, she lay still.

Celyne.

Too still.

Her
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