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Dev never feared death. He had seen too much of it. Caused too much of it.
But this this was different.
This wasn’t blood on the streets. This wasn’t a bullet to the chest or a knife slicing through flesh.
This was her.
Kaaya.
Lying there, hooked to machines, wires running across her fragile body, as if she was already half-gone. As if the world was preparing to let her go.
And beside her their daughter.
Dev’s breath hitched as he looked at the tiny bundle in the hospital crib.
She was barely there. A whisper of a life. A heartbeat away from fading into nothingness.
His hands clenched into fists.
Weak. She was weak. Too small. Too fragile.
She wouldn’t survive in his world.
She wouldn’t survive him.
His jaw tightened.
He should leave. He should walk out of this ro
