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Adriana’s POVA slow and creeping awareness seeped back into my body pulling me from unconsciousness. My eyelids feel heavy as if weighted and as though I had been asleep for years instead of what I assumed had been mere hours. A dull ache pressed against my temples and my throat burned all dry and raw. I inhaled sharply, the sterile scent of antiseptic filling my nose and my stomach twisted violently. Panic settled into my chest like a vice remembering what had brought me here and how I had lost consciousness in the first place. Isabella. My eyes fluttered open and I immediately tried to sit up but a sharp sting shot through my arm. I gasped, looking down to see an IV needle taped to my hand and the last remnants of fluid dripping into my bloodstream. My body felt weak and drainrd as if I had been wrung out completely. I turned my head toward the door just as it was pushed open with a sharp creak. And Rafael stepped inside. With the white background, he looks like a fallen dark
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Adriana’s POVThe hours passed like a slow And torturous drip of water with the silence of the room pressing in on me until it felt like I was suffocating. After Rafael left, the room was locked tight and the oppressivv stillness settled over me like a second skin. There were no windows and no way to tell if it was day or night just the sterile scent of the clinic and the weight of the decision I had just made crashing over me again and again. I paced the floor until my legs threatened to give out. I sat in the corner, pulled my knees to my chest and stared at nothing but all I could see was Isabella’s small body on that screen. I replayed Rafael’s cold and unforgiving eyes, the way he uttered those words like he hadn’t just stolen my soul with them. But more than anything, it was the helplessness that consumed me. I had signed myself away and shackled to the devil himseld for the faint promise that my daughter might live. The silence in the room felt like punishment. Each tick of
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Adriana’s POVI don’t know how long I stayed curled up next to Isabella before the sterile scent of the room became unbearable mixing with the sharp sting of disinfectants and my own growing dread. Her hand was still so small in mine, her heartbeat steady but weak beneath the weight of the monitors. Why isn’t she have to be awake already? I needed answers. I needed to know how she truly was. And I needed to face Rafael to her most of the answers. The man has already collected my life and I’m just realizing I didn’t fucking read the contract. Anything and I mean anything could be there. Reluctantly, I peeled myself away from her while tucking the blanket tighter around her fragile form. I pressed a kiss to her forehead, whispering a silent promise against her clammy skin. I really cannot watch her like this even though the machines are beeping. When I stepped out of the room the hallway outside was empty save for two guards stationed near the end. I didn’t know whether they were the
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Adriana’s POVI barely noticed Nathan trailing behind me as I hurried back through the maze of hallways on my own this time around. Maybe he trusts that I won’t be stupid to run away with my daughter still unconscious. My feet moved on their own while my head pounded with Rafael’s voice echoing through it.Those words gnawed at me like teeth sinking into fleshy and poisoning every thought. But I didn’t care about his threats right now. I just needed to get back to my daughter and hear her heartbeat all over the room. That is the only freaking thing that is making me stable on my feet. Nothing else. When I reached the room again the sterile air hit me harder than before. That sharp antiseptic scent clung to my nose and throat as I pushed open the door. The faint rhythmic beeping from the ECG machine welcomed me with each beat reminding me that she was still alive and still fighting to come back to me. She would never abandon me, I know that.Isabella lay there like a porcelain doll al
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Rafael’s POVI leaned back in the leather chair behind my desk, staring through the floor-to-ceiling windows of my study. The morning light poured in, slashing long shadows across the marble floor, but it did nothing to thaw the ice running through my veins. The documents scattered before me were a blur. My mind wasn’t on business. No, it was on Adriana.Ever since she barged back into my life again I couldn’t shake her. The way her eyes burned when she signed herself to me last night and the storm she tried to bury beneath layers of defiance. But I saw through it. I saw the cracks. Someone had broken her and this time, it wasn’t me. It was Marco.I exhaled slowly while lifting two fingers to signal to Anna who stood quietly by the door. The only woman I’ve tolerated in this mansion besides Nathan. Usually, she fills the silence with harmless chatter but today? Today, she stayed quiet and stiff for reasons I don’t bother asking. Finally some peace and wuiet. “Tell her I expect her fo
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