Chapter 4

The paramedics arrived within minutes.

They stabilized Sophie and rushed her to the hospital.

The paramedic's voice was calm, cutting through the panic: "She’s stable, but we need to get her to the hospital immediately. Anaphylactic shock is severe."

I rode beside Sophie, holding her hand as the oxygen mask covered her face.

For the first time in her life, she didn't have her journal.

It was packed safely in the suitcase at home, tucked away alongside the divorce papers that had just been submitted to the court system.

When we arrived at the emergency ward, the nurses moved with…