Too Late For Regret: The Surgeon's Comeback

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body. It was a cold, numbing fear. However, something else immediately followed. A pure

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focused, had shrunk to the size of pinpoints.

, laced with cruel laughter. "Enjoy this 'deep physiotherapy' while you c

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to bone fragments, and she would spend the rest of her life

ot out like a viper, her fingers locking

of bone cracking echo

before any sound could escape, Ariel's other hand slammed into

his soft abdomen with the force of a hammer. The force flung him off the bed, l

nd disbelief. He stared at the woman sitting on the bed, the woman who had j

on the carpet. Her gaze swept across the room, landing on the iron hammer

stood above him, like a predator surveying its wounded prey. H

ely, trying to project his usual authori

. She didn't answer. Instead, with a restrained violenc

ed muffled thuds that e

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mmer and gently placed it on Mickey's skull. The icy coldness of th

w and whispered, colder than the ir

mingling on his face. "I...I don

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-a nauseating mix of love and betrayal. The coldness

she stated, her t

perate to live. "Brittny Gree

best friend. A classic and tragic betrayal, wanting her to live

out his phone. His sweaty thumb was all she needed to unlock it. Her fingers flew across the screen, bringi

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fast they blurred as she encrypted the file and sent it to a secure, anonymous cloud server. Only then, after expertly erasing h

p, his face filled with te

struck the back of his neck, and he

ge face looked back at her. Beautiful, exquisite, yet u

te a short string of numbers on the bathroom mirror-the

you don't want your bones to shatter into pieces, you'd bet

t wait for

nt, the sounds of a distant party echoing down

stairs. The cold concrete steps led her down, one after another, unti

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river asked witho

un-down apartment in an area of ​​the

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