Timelines – Chapter One – Page 31
The nurse is gone, but her words cling like a second skin. “No doctor can save you.” “You’re mine now, sugar puff.”
And Ellie? She just lays there. Heavy. Wide. Full of questions and fear… and something else.
Because what if the nurse wasn’t lying? What if this new body—this soft, slow, beautiful burden—wasn’t a curse? What if it was a gift?
I think Ellie’s starting to feel it. And gods help me, I feel it too.














