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nd cold. It cut through the fog of pain and the relentless,
t against her skull. Then, a searing fire along her ribs with every shallow breath she managed to draw. She
pt. It was Harrison's voice. Harrison Vanderbilt-Crane IV. Her fiancé. "Crashi
Brianna's face, a mask of feigned concern, just moments before she'd handed Chloe the keys, knowing full well she'dheart monitor beeped a steady, monotonous rhythm beside her. Her gaze darted arou
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he cold emptiness, the final surrender. Yet here she was, in this hospital bed, on this exact day. The day it all began to unravel. Her hear
sh. It was a grip she knew intimately, the prelude to a lecture, to being dragged away from a party, to being silenced. The familia
ved, had once spent years desperately trying to please, was twisted with disgust. The love she had carried for him, a crushing weight she'd borne eve
n't it?" he scoffed, his grip tightening. "This is what this is all abou
self in this moment. She had cried. She had apologized, pathetically, for a crash that wasn't her fault, begging him to believe she would
t in misery, solidified within her. It was a core of ste
liar pattern. His tone dripped with condescensio
hite-hot. With a surge of strength she didn't know sh
he next, she moved. She swung her arm, her palm connecting with his cheek with
eyes, wide with disbelief, were fixed on her. He had never, not
, torn from a throat dry with pain and disuse. But the
done, H
efiance. A new, more outrageous play for attention. "Do you hav
r sea. She repeated the words, each one a nail in the coffin o
rrison Vanderbilt-Crane IV looked at the woman he thought he owned, he felt a sliver of genuine fear. This declaration wasn't
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