Chapter 67

Lila later thought that if Kieran hadn't been there during that time, she might not have survived.

The flu hit her hard. The day she fell ill, her fever spiked and wouldn't come down. She lay weak in bed, unable to lift a finger.

She called Dorian, but Zara answered the phone instead. Lila couldn't remember much of what she had said in her dazed state. She sent another message later, but there was no reply.

She hadn't reached out because she wanted him to come. She wouldn't want him to risk catching the illness.

But being sick and possibly facing death in a foreign country, filled her with an overwhelmed loneliness. She just wanted to hear his voice, to feel some comfort.

But there was nothing.

Kieran found out the next day and rushed over.

By then, she hadn't had water all day.

She couldn't eat either, not because she didn't want to, but because she was too weak to move.

She was so sick that she could barely recognize anyone, yet she saw Zara's post on SoulLink.

of

hands were visible, but Lila

his thumb and index finger on his left hand,

post on SoulLink

She was afraid that

her say "Who wouldn't feel bad when they're sick?" just

I didn't know. If I had known, I

the past, just seeing him like this would have

now, she just lay quietly in bed. The cicadas in the Magnolia tree outside were buzzing incessantly. Their

pity me. I just want you to know that a long time

three beads she had picked up earlier. "The bracelet, it was just the last straw that broke us," she

opened her palm, her fair skin as smooth as polished ivory, and

the beads within her palm,

shaking. His eyes

you, from the beginning to end. Zara and I, we

had once been attracted to Zara, but he had

kissed or slept

it funny when Dorian said he and Zara

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