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te nod, his gaze still locked on the screen, his expression unreadable but for that faint, almost imperceptible smile. Everly was practically vibrating with suppressed laughter, her mind a chaotic chorus of victory chants.
Everly's mind screeched to a halt, her internal monologue a single, sustained scream of denial.
Wait, WHAT?! No, no, no, no, NO! The fake
Everly, Dr. Yang, and the nurse all shared the same wild-eyed expression of people who had just witnessed their carefully constructed house of cards burst into flames.
Each of them mentally calculating the fastest escape route out of the examination room, none of them daring to breathe or utter a single syllable, their collective panic a silent, suffocating force.
The silence stretched on, thick and unbearable, until it was finally shattered by Cassian's voice, slow and deliberate, each word dripping with an icy, controlled fury that made the room's temperature drop several degrees.
