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gned my statement, even the name "Emma

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flashed acros

tears and answ

on the other end. My mother's furious

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of warm water, then walked back and crouched

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rough the hallway while the sk

mained off, the dimness quietly

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my body. But

of the hospital, night had

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led out my phone to call a car, but

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my apartment building, but t

at and the building entrance. I pushed open the door and ran

off his suit jacket and holding it over my h

trance, I turned aroun

ly to my body, outlining every

my arms over my chest and hunched my shoulders

ckered briefly thr

he quietly draped the jack

scle memory formed after performing thousands of surgeries. The jacke

s tires crushed through a puddle, sending a massiv

apped an arm around my waist an

ther. His arm locked firmly around my back wh

mell the faint scent of disinfe

enough to completely drown ou

mm

nly cut throu

my head s

driver's door hanging open. He stood in t

another man's arms, soaked from head

ights, Ryan's face slo