Chapter 4
The scene unfolded like slow motion in a movie, with Aurora reduced to a ineje ext
eir love story |
Aurora collapsed in a pool of her own blood as panicked screams echand throngle the hospital. Her only consolation was Sinclair funded hospital, at that.||
When Autora regained consciousness, she found Natluspiel sitting by her bedside.
ing her awake, he pulled out a thermos of homemade fand herd Brought from home ||
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“Grandfather and Grandmother are vacationing in Europe. No need to drag them into this mess,” he said casually. Tve already got my lawyers handing everything. The crazy woman who attacked you has been detained.“|||
Aurora exhaled with relief, though she couldn’t stop trembling at the memory of the attacker’s twisted face||
Yet Nathaniel offered no explanation for shandoning her while shielding Felicia. He didn’t even acknowledge it had happened, as if her witnessing his true priorities was just a shared hallucination ||
As Nathaniel opened the container, the smell hit Aurora like a truck. Memories of being doused with human waste overwhelmed her senses, the shoved him apway and vomited violently, ignoring the searing pain tearing through her abdomen.
“What’s wrong? The chef made your favorite pumpkin soup,” Nathantel said, rubbing her back with practiced concern that now felt like sandpaper against her
skin.
she shook her head, fighting through the pain with a raw voler: “Get that shit away from met I can’t even look at it
Nathaniel flinched, surprised by her intense reaction.[]
Tine, I’ll have them make something else,” he said, talding the thermos and leaving the room, his martyred sigh not quite hidden.
Aurora closed her eyes, trying to suppress the acid burning her throat. Each gesture of “care” from Nathaniel now revealed itself as the hollow performANCE had always been. She called for a nurse to redress her wounds.
When the nurse arrived, something about her eyes seemed strangely familiar. Her movements were clumsy, pressing against Aurora’s wounds in ways that tent black spots daticing across her vision.
Only after the bandaging was complete and the door closed did Aurorn hear the “nurse” burst into laughter in the hallway
My God Look at Little Miss Perfect now! When I was redressing her wounds, I deliberately pressed on her stab winds, and she just took it hit through her own lip rather tisa completart“||
Aurora recognized Felicia’s voice as she spoke to another woman]
herven the goid digging batch right for trying to trap Nathaniel,” the other woman replied, “hui aqua, Felicia… putting chila oil on her wound Wag 1 the come after you? ||
the stolen murar a uniform, soodled with medicious defigiat ||
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friend, her vidce barely
a whisper ||
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