Chapter 182

Chapter 182Chapter 182Isabella’s POV10 vouchersConsciousness returned to me slowly, not in a clean or gentle way, but in fragments that seemed to drag themselves upward through something thick and disorienting, as though my body had been submerged somewhere deep and my mind was struggling to catch up to where I was.The first thing I became aware of was the quiet, not the comforting kind, but the sterile kind. The kind that hums faintly beneath artificial lights and carries the faint scent of antiseptic.I was in a hospital.