Hannah’s POV
Everything felt… heavy.
Like I was being pulled under something I couldn’t fight.
Voices echoed around me, but they were distant. Faint. Like I was underwater and the world was happening somewhere above me.
I tried to move.
Nothing.
My body didn’t respond.
A small panic started to build in my chest.
Am I… dying?
The thought came slowly, but once it did, it refused to leave.
No.
No, I couldn’t be.
Not yet.
Not when my mum just
The memory hit me all at once.
Her face.
Her voice.
The way she looked at me the last time I saw her.
My chest tightened painfully.
“Mum…”
The word barely formed in my mind, but the pain that followed was sharp.
Too sharp.
And then
Darkness shifted.
I gasped softly as my eyes fluttered open.
The ceiling above me came into view, un
