Chapter 454

Before the guard could finish his sentence, a delivery truck hurtled our way out of nowhere.

"Bang!" That was the sound.

Instinctively, Colin wrapped his arms around me, pulling me into his embrace, shielding me from the impact.

But Damian... Damian wasn't so lucky. The truck sent him flying.

"Run... get out..." Damian's voice was raspy, barely there, as if he'd mustered all his strength for those words.

Get out.

He wasn't talking about escaping the immediate danger, but rather, like Truman from "The Truman Show," breaking free from a world under constant surveillance.

"Dr. Damian!" The hospital's security rushed over, surrounding Damian, and dialed 911 for an ambulance.

I stood frozen, my fingers numb.

Damian was a target too...

And me, I hadn't even come close to reaching Damian's level...

Who was behind all this? How could they be so terrifying?

time, I felt a profound sense of dread and fear, from head to

top, we were no more

hierarchical structures... You don't touch the interests of the elite unless you can fight

words echoed in my

and conspiracy, nations and wars,

with one's station, shifting and

what's fake, in the world around Phoebe and me?" I whispered, gripping his hand

us is the protagonist of our own world; everyone else is just background," Colin squeezed my fingers back. "To

if... I'm not really Phoebe?" I looked into Colin's

that my memories were just part of some experiment, an implant?

What could he do...

a heat rising in

my hand to Colin's face, resting my forehead against his. It all seemed so unfair to him; he'd suffered too much for Phoebe. If the

the thought of that outcome made my heart ache

it was the memories or if I had truly

like the whole world was a fabrication, an

Colin's certainty never

had some truth that I didn't, or if he was

a scientific

soul rebirth and parallel universes is plausible. We can't deny the unknown just because science hasn't affirmed it yet..." Colin pulled me into a corner, cradling my

to the present,

was always striving to

ambulance arrived, taking Damian

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