Chapter 37- A night out
Author: D.twister
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The cold had turned her bones hollow.

Valeria lay curled on the floor, her breath barely misting now, her lips bluish and trembling. Her thoughts were fragments. Slipping. Distant.

Until—

CLANG.

The metal door burst open.

Blinding light poured in, and with it—footsteps. Heavy. Urgent.

“Elijah…” she whispered weakly, her voice no louder than a sigh.

“Elijah Quinn, sir—wait, the medics are coming—” a security guard shouted behind.

But Elijah didn’t wait.

He threw his blazer off the second he saw her.

“Valeria!” he dropped to the floor beside her, quickly wrapping her frozen body in the warmth of his jacket. “Valeria, look at me. Look at me!”

Her eyes fluttered open.

His voice was cracking.

His hands were shaking.

He pulled her into his arms—lifting her effortlessly off the freezing floor.

The only warmth left in that room came from him.

Her head nestled against his chest, where his heart was thundering.

“Elijah…” she croaked, barely audible.

“Don’t talk,” he muttered, h
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