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A Heart in Turmoil

Author: AALIYAH
last update Last Updated: 2025-01-08 23:40:45

Carla’s POV.

I was pacing up and down in front of the operating room, my eyes soaked with tears, feeling unsettled and terrified.

“No, No, he can’t die. He must survive. God please, let him live” I prayed as I silently cried, scared that I would lose him.

I wasn’t my normal self. I was anxious and feeling guilty for being the cause of the state he was in.

“If I hadn’t cry, he wouldn’t have taken his eyes off the road. If he hadn’t taken the hit for me, he wouldn’t be in such a life threatening situation. Why am I so unlucky? Why do I always lose the people I love? Just why?” I silently questioned myself as I bit my trembling fingers, fidgeting.

I remembered his last words, those words he had said to me with affection in his eyes, despite the pain he was feeling at that moment.

I was terrified, terrified of losing the man that I had begun to fall in love with, the man that gave me the reason to live again. I was scared I wouldn’t have the chance to tell him I felt the same way towards
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