Chapter 72 Clean Margins
The first rule of excision is simple:
if you don’t remove everything that’s diseased, it grows back.
The boardroom smells like polished wood and restrained panic.
I sit at the far end of the table, hands folded, spine straight, expression neutral enough to be misread as calm. Across from me are me...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 Admission
2. Chapter 2 The First Cut
3. Chapter 3 SHOCK DIAGNOSIS
4. Chapter 4 THE SILENCE BETWEEN HEARTBEATS
5. Chapter 5 The Cut That Doesn’t Bleed
6. Chapter 6 THE WEIGHT OF MEMORY
7. Chapter 7 The Noise Beneath the Pulse
8. Chapter 8 The Fault Line Beneath Us
9. Chapter 9 TENSION THRESHOLDS
10. Chapter 10 The Second Pulse
11. Chapter 11 Pulse Drift
12. Chapter 12 Proximity Is the Scalpel
13. Chapter 13 The Pulse Beneath the Scar
14. Chapter 14 The Pressure Point
15. Chapter 15 The Shape of His Unease
16. Chapter 16 Anatomy Lab
17. Chapter 17 The Slow Stitching of Attachment
18. Chapter 18 The Pulse Beneath the Silence
19. Chapter 19 The Bruise Under the Skin
20. Chapter 20 Where the Wounds Begin
21. Chapter 21 THE SOFT ACHE OF ALMOST
22. Chapter 22 THE QUIET BEFORE THE CUT
23. Chapter 23 The Shape of the Ruin Ahead
24. Chapter 24 The Quiet Between Incisions
25. Chapter 25 The Distance We Pretend Not to Feel
26. Chapter 26 The Shift No One Admits Is Happening
27. Chapter 27 The Quiet Fracture
28. Chapter 28 The Distance Between Heartbeats
29. Chapter 29 THE SHAPE OF THE DRIFT
30. Chapter 30 WHERE SILENCE LEARNS TO SPEAK
31. Chapter 31 The Quiet Between Us
32. Chapter 32 The First Fracture You Pretend Not to Feel
33. Chapter 33 Fault Lines
34. Chapter 34 The Weight of Small Silences
35. Chapter 35 Tremors
36. Chapter 36 First Lessons
37. Chapter 37 Shattered Currents
38. Chapter 38 Cracks in the Glass
39. Chapter 39 Hidden Faults
40. Chapter 40 Fractured Trust
41. Chapter 41 Silent Chasms
42. Chapter 42 The Weight of Absence
43. Chapter 43 The Anatomy of Absence
44. Chapter 44 The Space Between Heartbeats
45. Chapter 45 The Weight of Evidence
46. Chapter 46 The Rupture Line
47. Chapter 47 The Threshold of Collapse
48. Chapter 48 The Echo of Recognition
49. Chapter 49 Stress Test
50. Chapter 50 Fault Line
51. Chapter 51 Convergence
52. Chapter 52 Fractures
53. Chapter 53 Shadows of Truth
54. Chapter 54 The Unraveling
55. Chapter 55 Beneath the Breaking Point
56. Chapter 56 THE POINT OF NO RETURN
57. Chapter 57 Fractured Precision
58. Chapter 58 Beneath the Scalpel
59. Chapter 59 Fractured Lines
60. Chapter 60 Scalpel Edge
61. Chapter 61 Incisions of the Past
62. Chapter 62 Silent Sutures
63. Chapter 63 Pressure Points
64. Chapter 64 The Distortion Threshold
65. Chapter 65 Symptom Escalation
66. Chapter 66 Externalization
67. Chapter 67 Loss of Sterility
68. Chapter 68 The First Voice
69. Chapter 69 Residual Evidence
70. Chapter 70 This Is Not Recovery
71. Chapter 71 Scar Tissue
72. Chapter 72 Clean Margins
73. Chapter 73 Residuals
74. Chapter 74 Aftercare
75. Chapter 75 Collateral Healing
76. Chapter 76 The Weight of Healing
77. Chapter 77 The Shape of Silence
78. Chapter 78 Names That Remain
79. Chapter 79 The Last Incision
80. Chapter 80 The Scar We Keep
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