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Everything burns again.
My ears are ringing, and my next breath is the most pain I’ve ever felt.
This can’t be heaven.
It’s too painful.
But my eyes are heavy, and the weight of a body is keeping me pinned to the floor.
Fight, Claire.
Fucking fight.
The blackness is coming again, lulling me away.
“Come back.”
Go back, Claire.
They need you.
Breathe.
“Come back, baby. We need you. Breathe.”
Jake?
He’s not supposed to be here.
This isn’t heaven.
“Fuck. Wake up, sweetheart. Come on. Keep breathing.”
There’s a warm hand on my face, in my hair, on my neck.
But it’s not squeezing anymore.
He didn’t kill me.
I’m alive.
There’s warmth on my lips and tears dripping onto my cheeks, but they’re not mine.
“The world won’t spin without you. Come back to me.”
His voice is enough for my lungs to fill. It’s tight, and my throat is on fire, but I do it.The taste of blood makes me nauseous and my mouth waters.
“I’m going to get you out of here.”
My eyes shoot open, gasping as my body becomes desperate for oxygen, but the air is heavy.
It still burns.
Darkness clouds my vision, stinging with every blink.
Smoke.
He needs to go.
