Can’t Win Me Back

As Sheryl looked back at the empty corridor, a chill ran down her spine, and the hair on the back of her neck stood on end.

She heard someone calling her Liana Gardner.

It was a name she had discarded long ago—a part of her past she thought she had buried forever.

Yet now, it came rushing back, unbidden and relentless.

After all this time, she believed she had severed ties with her old life.

But the moment she heard the name that had once been hers for over 20 years, she reacted instinctively, unable to suppress the surge of unease.

"Ms. Gillis!" A man, who appeared to be the hospital director, approached her with two medical staff in tow.

He offered a polite smile and said, " I've prepared this round of medications.

Shall we administer them to the subjects today?" "How many times have I told you not to call them subjects? They are patients," Sheryl said coldly, fixing him with a sharp glare.

" You make it sound like we're running some kind of inhumane experiment." The doctor laughed.

"You're right, you're right." Sheryl's tone softened only slightly as she continued, "Oh, by the way, did you see any suspicious individuals on your way here?" The three medical personnel exchanged glances.

"Suspicious individuals? No.

The security here is so tight; who could possibly sneak in?" Sheryl scoffed.

''We're in Solana City now, not Mosgravia.

It's better to be cautious." Meanwhile, Remy had received instructions to help out at the hospital.

forward expressionlessly when he saw two healthcare workers pushing a

wasn't paying

the young woman in the hospital bed called

s -Save...

He lowered his

a sight of utter

network of dark, bruised needle marks, was a

widened slightly as he froze, the woman's tear-filled gaze piercing through

at him with a desperation that shook him to his core despite him witnessing countless

later, the healthcare workers wheeled her away,

one of the workers by

voice was low

she still

Ms.

to dispose of her." Remy's

condition deteriorating?" "The clinical trial failed,"

she was diagnosed with a

trial hadn't failed, she'd still be

she gets to the afterlife faster." The afterlife faster? Remy clenched his fists so tightly

iron grip was squeezing

himself a

the sheer cruelty in the worker's words was enough to crush whatever

her icy voice pulling

have to leave

stay here and keep watch over that