lack smoke, her fingers clawing into t

es, a heart monitor beeped steadily beside her ear. Panting hard in a sweat-soaked gray hospital

tor said it was just heatstroke and low blood sug

e and threw her arms around her. Alexis turned her stiff

her past life was a late-night phone call two years from now-Paige had swallowed a whole bottle of sleeping pills in a tiny

and to touch Paige's warm c

till here? I'm not

her hand against Alexis's

your engagement warm-up cocktail party in Central Park. Yo

ked onto the digital calendar on the

in her eyes. In her past life, she had laid in this exact ward for two hours like a

, and the Davenport semicond

eside the bed, crossing

here for three hours, and that guy hasn't even shown his face or pic

xis didn't panic or cry as she used to. Instead, she lean

nd cancel his visit. Tell the

a peeled apple h

nd if you didn't see Colby for one minute? You wou

yline outside the window, the corner

w I'm no longer at his beck and call. Letting him i

"Dad (Branch Davenport)" on the screen. Her eyes reddened ins

ad

, caring voice came

mother and I are driving back from the Connec

rned to death in her last life, Alexis swallowe

a little tired. Dri

ing it was all her fault for not taking care of

ll had made her mother feel guilty enough to take Bobbye to Fift

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re throwing off the covers and stepping onto the carpet. Walking into the marble bathroom, she splashed freezing tap water onto her twen

m and grabbed her black cashm

me. This room is