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I barely made it to the bathroom before the nausea took over. My stomach clenched painfully, and I dropped to my knees in front of the toilet just in time to hurl. My heart was pounding, racing too fast, and my vision blurred.

Tears streamed down my cheeks as I gagged again, gripping the cold porcelain, trying to hold on to anything solid while my body turned inside out.

I couldn't breathe. I couldn't see. I was drowning in panic, and if I didn't get my breathing under control, I was going to pass out right here in a puddle of my own vomit. It's not the best way to make an impression.

If I vomited from running too many laps, I would have at least been able to hold onto my dignity - athletes vomit all the time. But this was me, being pathetic and useless and letting Bryan get the better of me even though he's a long one and rotting in jail.

I hated him for it-that he still had this small ounce of power over me. I even forgot about it-this feeling where the world could just swallow me whole because Luke was

there. He would spend the night, and I would sleep peacefully. When he didn't, I could just call him, and he would be there without hesitation every single time.

If I had called him now, he wouldn't have made it in time

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him to sneak me

hunched into the bowl, trying to force

door flung open, and someone was pulling my hair back from my face, lifting it gently away from my neck. I barely registered the cool air on my skin, soothing the heat,

fog of panic, steady and calm, like simple instructions

him, and I needed him. I needed Luke, but this voice didn't belong to Luke.

Aiden.

blowing cool air on my neck like he had no other place in the world

already expelled everything it could. The dry heaving was the worst-painful, pointless, and humiliating.

behind me, his presence overwhelming

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leaned in, hist voice calm and measured. "In through your nose, out through. your

listen and match his rhythm, but my whole body was shaking, and my throat burned. My heart was hammering, racing like it would explode, and I wasn't sure if

steady, grounding. "You're okay. Just focus on

he said. In through my nose, out through my mouth. It was a struggle, but eventually, my breath started to even out. The shaking

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