Chapter 57

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A groan left my lips as I forced myself to sit up on the bed.

I looked up at the half full IV bag passing some drip into my veins and sighed.

I hate hospitals. I'd rather be at home than in a place that reminds me of my past.

A memory flashed before my eyes.

wrist as my father brought me to Healer Kwan to get treated. My wrist was so badly broken that the edges of the bones jutted out like sharp objects in opposite directions. When someone asked me what happened, I lied. I told them some random bullshit

from a treehouse, but it was my father who pushed me. He had exiled Miro without food and water for three days and from the second day; I had gone to sneak him food but somehow, on the third day, my

I couldn't tell anyone that. My father was a reputable man who just seemed to have sons that got in too much trouble and always ended up wounding themselves. Everyone thought our abuse was a phase, and it's why I hate hospitals so much because deep down, I just know that this hospital staff knew what our father was doing to us but chose to turn a blind

head, blinking back to the present

side wouldn't let me. Wincing, I looked down at my stomach area, wrapped in white gaute to cover my injury. When I tried to move my arm around, a sharp pain stabbed my lungs, causing me to wince Just then, I heard a knock on the door and shortly after Healer Kwan walked

"I told

said, "I was already here when I

sixty something year old man couldn't be more eager to leave. The moment we were left alone, I glanced at my brother, wondering why

that he was on edge, a subtle side effect of the diet Dad put

one of his hideouts, and raided the place. Unfortunately, he escaped but we were able

furrowed "What were they doing with

Ryn was supposed to disappear like the others. I just never paid attention to that until now. I think something

on my words, I eased to my feet and tried to stand again, but the first step I took had me nearly falling. In a flash, Miro's strong hands were holding me up and

as he helped me sit. "How did

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