Chapter 154

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(Eric's POV) The hospital they take her to is smaller than the one back home, cleaner in a stripped-down, efficient way, staffed by a doctor who's very calm and very thorough and speaks through a nurse translating carefully between us, checking each phrase twice before she lets it out into English. I give them her history. Every piece of it, everything I can remember with my hands still shaking slightly from the adrenaline — the miscarriage three weeks ago. The fall before it, the park, the wall, the specifics I remember Rebecca telling me in that hospital bed back home, hip and ribs and the ache underneath both. The flight this morning. The heat outside. I lay it all out clean and organized, the way I lay out any set of facts I need someone smarter than me to act on quickly, because ri

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