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Chapter FIFTY- Five

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ELOISE.

“Will Mom remember me?” an impertinent girl’s voice demanded, and I strained to open my eyes. The pain had reduced probably due to some kind of medication, but I couldn’t move my mouth still.

My tongue felt thick and tasted awful, my eyelids were too heavy to open and I had no sense of my sorrounding.

The only thing I knew knew was that I'd floated in and out of this state of semiconsciousness with my mind a jumbled blur.

However, I wanted to see my daughter. I fought to lift a lid but couldn’t.

“Of course your mother will remember you,” a woman said softly, her sharp, staccato footsteps snapping loudly as she approached the bed, the soft chink of jewelry accompanying the scent of that same elusive perfume.

It was probably my mother in-law. her cologne was familiar.

“Don’t worry.”

“But she looks terrible.” The girl said again—my daughter. “I thought she’d be better by now.”

“She is, but it just takes time, Giana. We’re all going to have to be patient. Do you want
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