Letting My Brother's Best Friend Take My V-Card

Chapter 383

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JESS

The night was still, the sky stretched wide above me, thick with stars. It should have been peaceful, but my heart was

hammering so hard I could barely hear anything else.

My hands clenched around my phone as I paced on top of this goddamn hill, willing for better reception.

Static crackled in my ear, followed by Luke's voice-choppy but urgent.

"Something happened... Germany... this morning-well, their morning, our evening, or whatever..." He was talking fast, words breaking apart, stitched together by interference.

I stopped moving. "Luke, what? I can barely hear you."

A rush of static, then-

"Her heart stopped, Jess."

The words punched through me, ripping the air from my lungs.

It felt like something had slammed into my chest. I staggered, my knees giving out, and I dropped onto the cold, damp grass.

No.

No, no, no.

My mind reeled, scrambling, trying to make sense of what that

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meant.

Her heart stopped.

That meant...

That meant-

told him this would happen

mouth, barely suppressing the sob clawing

She was gone.

Laura was gone.

cut through the silence again, breaking apart,

had to

hard, my breath hitching. "What?" I croaked.

my ears as I climbed higher up the

come

as day, Luke's voice finally came

"She woke up, Jess."

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Everything stopped.

world around me blurred, the night sky stretching, spinning,

No. That wasn't possible.

breathless, like even he couldn't believe what he was

"Babe, she woke up."

up, my breath

rough. "They had no choice but to resuscitate her. The professor said a lot of things

Laura wasn't gone.

She was alive.

didn't think. I

and dirt slipped under my boots, and for a second, I was sure

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