Chapter 556
Author: Emerald
last update2026-03-15 22:33:19

However the miraculous doctor said nothing.

He sat with the particular and deliberate stillness of a man who has received something directed at him and has made a conscious and considered decision about how to respond to it before the something has even finished arriving at its destination.

Amanda's words hung in the air of the receiving chamber with the raw and trembling force of everything that had been behind them - the years of not knowing, the months of fear, the specific and terrible angu
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