BETTER SIGNAL

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-

DNR papers. They'd told him this

barely suppressing the sob clawing its way up

She was gone.

Laura was gone.

through the silence again,

had to attempt-resuscitation-Josh was

my breath hitching. "What?" I croaked. "Babe. What the hell are you

pulse a drum in my ears as I climbed

on, come

day, Luke's voice

"She woke up, Jess."

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Everything stopped.

me blurred, the night sky

No. That wasn't possible.

like even he couldn't believe what

"Babe, she woke up."

breath coming in

of Josh, and he never signed," Luke said, voice rough. "They had no choice but to resuscitate her. The professor said

Laura wasn't gone.

She was alive.

think. I just

pulling me faster than I could control. Rocks and dirt slipped under my boots, and for a

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