Lost Time, Found Love: Ava's Return

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g sound that cut throu

ned m

rile, with a single square

t my bedr

spread through my whole body, a hea

ed in, holding a chart. She fr

d clattered

hand flying to her mouth. "Dr. Ro

d to bubble

is woman. I didn'

is eyes wide. He approached my bed

? Ava? Can y

throat too

tell me yo

name. The name I built my company with.

the

d, confused. "

nged a look, a heavy, pitying

aid, his voice gentle

een on the wall, a calendar

as bright

12,

make sense. It was

"That' s wrong. The car crash... it

as fifteen ye

ifteen years. A dec

two impossible points in time. Lily. My daugh

My hu

sharp, clear. The CEO voice. The one that got thing

ght nod. She retrieved a sleek, almost transparent device

, from our wedding. Ethan, smiling, his eyes full o

d the ca

g once

sn't the voice I knew. It w

is t

ef and fear warring inside

n a harsh, b

people. Do you get some sick thr

really me. I' m at the ho

don' t know who you are or what you want, but my wife is dead.

to hang up. I

o climb Miller' s Peak and you fell. You told everyone it was from a bike acci

ilent. I could hear

you know that?

o longer a confused patient, I was Ava Reed,

al, Room 304. You have ten minutes to get here. If you are not here, I will walk out of this h

t for an answ

g at me, her eyes a

mered. "Mr. Hayes. He' s a huge philanthropist. A

n' t say

sharing a secret. "A woman named Scarlett Vance. They' ve been

ett V

e. A stranger. A woman livi

a cold, hard knot in

t shoved it aside,

nurse dead in the eye. "Lily. Wher