Noah Bates felt as if all the blood in his body had frozen. Looking at the woman before him, he felt a sudden strangeness.
When had such a chasm opened up between him and Violet Don?
Noah stood up, feeling an overwhelming sense of dread in facing the Violet before him.
He fled from Violet's hospital room as if he were escaping, having stayed awake for two nights; yet, he felt defeated at the very moment she awoke.
As the door to the hospital room closed behind him, Violet shut her eyes and threw herself back onto the bed, tears streaming freely down her cheeks.
Noah stood outside the door, mere meters away, but it felt like an entire world separated them.
An entire world that seemed unreachable to him.
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Two days after being hospitalized, Violet requested a discharge. Noah couldn't persuade her, and Adriel River came too, "They say a miscarriage is like going through a mini confinement. Do you want to end up with a lingering illness?"