Chapter 180

After they arrived at the hotel-

Stella swiped the keycard and pushed the door open. Briony's face twisted in discomfort; she clapped a hand over her mouth and rushed straight into the bathroom.

Retching echoed from inside.

"Bryn—” Stella called, hurrying after her.

Outside the bathroom, Stewart and Cedric Clarke waited in the hallway, listening

to Briony's painful vomiting. Both men wore grim expressions.

It was a while before the sounds finally subsided.

Stella emerged, supporting a pale and exhausted Briony as they left the bathroom together.

The room had two beds. Stella guided Briony to one and helped her lie down.

Briony was clearly feeling awful-she barely managed to close her eyes before slipping into a restless sleep.

Stella pressed her palm to Briony's forehead.

A slight fever.

She tucked the blanket around Briony, then got up and stepped outside the room. Looking straight at Cedric Clarke, she said, "Leave your first aid kit with me."

Cedric handed it over, concern etched on his face. "Is she all right?"

at Stewart. "Thanks to someone, she was throwing up nonstop on the flight and now, just landed,

Cedric had no answer.

from Cedric's hands and

head. "Man, look

pressed into a thin line, his

turned and

"Hey, where are

...

the room, Stella took Briony's

99.9 degrees.

fever wasn't dangerously

opened the first aid kit, rummaged through it, but found

and gently wiped Briony's forehead and neck, hoping to bring her

furrowed in distress. Even unconscious,

for her friend, and she

a vague sense of someone tending to her, but her eyelids felt impossibly heavy;

blurred and shifted. Somewhere in that fog, she heard a familiar voice calling to

"Bryn... Bryn..."

found

tunnel stretched on and on, so long she began to feel

another voice

go any further!

She stopped and turned.

into a sun-dappled path

little, her grandfather taught her to ride a bike along a path just like this. She'd been so afraid of falling, always struggling

is always the beginning. It's not talent that matters most, Bryn-it's the courage to

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