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I never had a large group of people care for me before.

They swarmed me, Lux at the forefront.I made out my ex-roommates toward the back of the crowd rushing to get to me.

“An ambulance is on the way!”

“Yes, we’re right on the pedestrian bridge?—”

“I saw her get pushed over!”

Lux’s hands were on my face, holding me close.They were shaking.Tears filled her eyes.

“Oh, thank God,” she said.“I got here in time.I made it, Juliette.”

I gave her a weak smile.My head was pounding so hard it felt like it was going to rip my skull in two.

“You saved me,” I forced out and fell into her chest.Her hands left my face, and I caught sight of how bloodied they were as they retreated.But I couldn’t care.Not when she was here.

“Juliette?”

My vision blackened.I looked up at Lux, her face barely visible.

“I need to tell you something.”

“Later,” she said, her voice hitched.She looked around at what I assumed was the crowd, but I couldn’t see them anymore.“When’s the ambulance coming?”

“Lux,” I forced out, calling her attention back to me.“I love you too.I’m sorry I couldn’t say it earlier.”

“Stop saying that,” she said.“I don’t want to hear you say sorry ever again.”

“But I need to say it.”My eyelids fluttered closed.“I love you.”

“Juliette?Stay with me!”

I could vaguely feel her hands on me.But everything was getting colder.

“I loveyou,” I forced out, just as her muffled voice sounded again.

“I… love…you.”

Chapter32

Juliette

Beep.Beep.Beep.

I peeled my eyes open, bright light entering my vision and forcing me to close them right away.

My head was still pounding, though much less than after?—

My eyes popped open again.I looked around, noting that I was in a hospital room.

I’m alive.

My eyes settled on the lump of a person with her head in her arms on the edge of my bed.

Lux.Her shiny black hair was a mess around her head.Her clothes rumpled and stained.Maybe blood.

My blood?

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