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Bella decided to explore the house before she took her drugs. They would surely put her to sleep as soon as she took them, but she didn't want that. She wanted to see every part of the house, so she wouldn't be a stranger living in a place she didn't know.
"You don't need all that stress," Ava said. "There's plenty of time for you to do that when you're feeling better."
"I don't want to lie in bed and do nothing all day," she argued. "I want to do something. I want to see the rest of the rooms in the house, and understand where I'm staying."
"You just want to see Aiden's bedroom, don't you?" Ava winked, to which Bella immediately turned away as heat rose to her cheeks. She hadn't even thought about it, and truth be told, she didn't want to even think about it. Things between her a
