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It was so cold outside and my head was pounding and the last thing I wanted to do is to have another brawl with Del or have anything to do with Aurelia. All I wanted to do was curl up in bed with a nice cup of hot chocolate but my mind was heavy with what the new physician had said.

I couldn’t shake his words. Still couldn’t.

“Avoid stress,” Physician Renald had warned, all calm and clinical. “Or you may lose them.”

He was the new physician and he was really good.

Them.

Two of ...