The Weight of Almost Losing

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Present Day - Tuesday Night, 11 PM The hospital corridor smells like disinfectant and despair. Aria sits in a plastic chair outside the intensive care unit, staring at a door she's not allowed to pass through. Behind that door, Leon Hart lies unconscious, machines keeping him alive after he tried to end his own life. The man who abandoned her. Who betrayed her. Who chose another woman over his family. The man she's surprised to discover she doesn't want to lose. "Any change?" Marcus asks, returning from the cafeteria with coffee that tastes like sadness. "The doctors say the next few hours are critical." "How are you holding up?" Aria considers the question. How is she holding up after learning that her ex-husband tried to kill himself because he couldn't live with the guilt of w

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