She Jumps Then Wakes Unhurt While Her Family Bleeds Ten Times Worse Chapter 10
A steady alarm filled the room.Â
The lines on the monitors were going flat.Â
All four of them stared at me. Not with fearÂ
anymore. With regret.Â
Tears of blood streamed from William’s eyes. His fingers trembled for a long time before he barely managed to lift them, pointing at me.Â
Margaret’s mouth opened and closed, but noÂ
sound came out.Â
I could read her lips. “Elowen… I’m sorry.”Â
Nathan and Callum could no longer even lift their fingers. Only their eyes remained, wet and staringÂ
at me.Â
I stood at the foot of the bed, unzipped my canvasÂ
bag, and pulled out a worn sheet of paper.Â
It was a treatment waiver and an organ donationÂ
consent form.Â
A bright red fingerprint stained the bottom corner.Â
Back then, Nathan had grabbed my wrist. William.Â
had pried my fingers open, one by one, forcingÂ
them down onto it.Â
I walked to the center of the four hospital beds.Â
holding that paper.Â
The moment they saw it, all the pleading in theirÂ
eyes disappeared. Only despair.Â
“You always wanted this, didn’t you?”Â
I held the paper up in front of them.Â
“You gave birth to me. You raised me. So my life.Â
belongs to you.”Â
“That’s what you meant, right?”Â
I set the paper on William’s chest.Â
“This body has already paid what it owed you. AndÂ
I’ve taken enough in return.”Â
I picked it up again and tore it in half. Then I toreÂ
the pieces again and again.Â
Shreds drifted through the air and landed on theirÂ
faces.Â
White paper, red tears, smeared across them.Â
I turned and pushed open the door of the intensiveÂ
care unit.Â
At the end of the corridor, the window was wideÂ
open. Sunlight spilled across the floor.Â
I walked forward through the light.Â
Behind me, four alarms went off at once.Â
Doctors and nurses rushed past me, the windÂ
from their white coats brushing against my arm.Â
“Brain death! All four patients.”Â
“Start CPR!”Â
“It’s not working. No pulse!”Â
“But the EEG is still spiking. That makes noÂ
sense!”Â
“Forget it. Give epinephrine!”Â
They weren’t fully dead yet.Â
The ventilators were still running. Their hearts.Â
were still beating.Â
But their pain receptors were fully awake.Â
Tenfold rebound pain would continue burningÂ
through them until these bodies finally rottedÂ
away completely.Â
Maisie ended up to Fairview Psychiatric Center.Â
“Don’t take my bone marrow! It hurts! Help me!”Â
Every day she rolled on the floor of her ward.Â
screaming.Â
“She’s having another episode. Sedate her.” AÂ
nurse pinned her arms down..Â
“That won’t help. Her vitals are normal. She saysÂ
she’s in pain,” the doctor said flatly.Â
That kind of pain that didn’t actually exist wouldÂ
stay with her for the rest of her life.Â
I walked out of the hospital gates.Â
The afternoon sun was bright enough to make meÂ
squint.Â
I lowered my head and looked at my left palm.Â
Where I had crushed glass during the car accident.Â
a faint, thin scar remained. It hadn’t healed.Â
I pressed it with my nail.Â
It hurt. Just a little, but it was real.Â
I paused for a moment, then smiled.Â
The rebound was gone. So was the self–healing.Â
So was the immunity.Â
Bruises would linger. Cuts would bleed.Â
I clenched my fist, holding that faint pain in myÂ
palm. And I didn’t look back.Â
A breeze brushed past me, lifting my collar.Â
It wasn’t like the wind on the rooftop.Â
This time, it felt warm.

