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All through the day, my hands moved but my mind did not.

I stitched wounds. I checked the charts. I signed papers. I answered the nurses but my head was somewhere else.

It was towards Lena.

Five days.

Five long days without her voice.

I tried calling her again during my last break. The call didn’t even ring. It went straight to nothing. My messages stayed on sent. Not delivered. Not read. Just… there like me waiting.

I didn’t have Alpha Tristan’s number. I never thought I ...