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The initial sensation that Lilian experienced was one of relief.

Waking up alone in bed gave her a dream-like calmness, as though breathing softly after the tension of waiting for the blow which never arrived, a long breath was drawn out. Her heart, which had been stimulated by runaway fragments of an elusive reality, was slowly settling. She glanced about the room, her thudding heart thudding just a mite harder, for the presence of a man by the door or the rustle of bedclothes rising behind her. But there isn't anyone. She is alone.

She sat up slowly, a low moan escaping her lips as the pain in her head increased.

That was only a dream, she told herself bitterly.

It couldn't have been her bed that Chris was in, cradling her like treasure. It had to be the tablets. The mix of drugs that the hospital administered to her must have fueled that silly, morose hallucination.

She hauled herself up and tried to stand, but had to reach out and clutch the nightstand to balance as the room tilte
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