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Chapter 4 The Silence Between Heartbeats
ned to the departmental n
go. Eight pap
Around her, pharmacy students chattered in panicked voices, their faces alreadn't f
the o
ics to revise. Practicals to perfect. Drugs to memorize. Pathways to
a's voice when she jo
u or plug your brain into
idn't
, she shut o
wrote until her fingers cramped. Studied until her vision doubled. Slept in thirty-minute int
elf it was be
ody had o
e the tests, t
e through her bones. Burning in her joints. Her chest felt
friends rushed her to the universit
asped, her voice
rushing her hair off her clammy face and dialing
ips, pain meds, muttered medical terms, and l
her paren
is eyes wild with unspoken fear. Her mother wept quietly beside h
the barracks clinic," the C
't a qu
r condition was first diagnosed. Where the medic
d, Jamal and Adam were already w
hout a word, holding Alia's cold ha
private vehicle, but he n
ia didn't
t
oken, useless. He didn't deserve to see her like
oking through the glass window from the corr
ls were
and t
some rest. Adam had finally stepped out for coffee after sitting beside her all da
the pain meds wearing off, her body
t in air before s
ma
ough it were porcelain. His thumb stroked her knuckles, gentle and rever
he stirred,
rching hers. "You're awake. My
away, her voice cold. "What
I'm here for you. D
t ask yo
o be. I'm not goin
aw cl
like this. Not now. Not again. I'm not afraid of your pain. I'm not afraid of your silence. Y
acked, but h
push me away.
t tightening. "Why wo
id. "Because I love you
rive the wedge between them deeper-b
ft
ep
ssion. But
nt, her body f
back, the dam i
se. All the pain, fear, frustration-everything she'd been holdi
r. I've worked so hard. And I've failed. Again. Don't you see? You don't deserve this. Y
n't say that. Don't ever say that. You're not
til her thr
her, rocking
most people can say. Your life is just beginning. Tests can be retaken. Exams will com
in days, she let
wrapped in his arms and her broke
't about fixing
aying... even when th
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