Chapter 1718

When Sophie came to, it felt like she was waking up from a deep, dreamless slumber. Her eyes fluttered open, and she found herself in a hospital's intensive care unit. The sunlight pouring in through the window was almost blinding. Colby was right there beside her, "Where's Gordon?" Sophie's voice was thick with emotion, almost breaking.

having stayed up all night.

The room was filled with silence. Odie, Jenna, and Adler were there too, but no one dared to speak.

"Colby, please, tell me," Sophie pressed, her voice calm but quivering underneath.

Colby struggled to find the words.

Sophie turned her gaze to Jenna, her eyes brimming with a pain she couldn't hide anymore. Everyone could see how hard she was trying to keep it together. "Jenna, you have to tell me."

"I... I..." Jenna stammered, unable to say what needed to be said, her eyes meeting Sophie's.

Adler, flustered, offered, "Maybe... maybe you should rest a little more..."

"He's in the morgue. Do you want to see him?" Odie finally broke the heavy silence.

The air seemed to freeze with those words.

stubbornly, fighting to keep her

passed last night. They're taking him to the funeral home for cremation in an hour. If you don't go, you'll miss your

bed with her fists, trying to release the tidal wave of

give her some room," Colby suggested,

etched on her face, then

soon as she was alone, the

down

she sobbed and screamed,

swivel

to let

was a

on the cold floor, she hugged her knees,

Harold walked in, he saw the chaos that

slept either, his eyes

from

sorrow. He sat Sophie,

I bed.

grief was just

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