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The hospital room is bathed in the sterile white glow of fluorescent lights, the antiseptic smell clinging to the air like an unwelcome guest. Outside, the muffled hum of the city filters through the window, but inside, time seems suspended. You stir on the bed, the rough fabric of the hospital gown scratching against your skin. Your gaze drifts across the room, past the IV stand and the muted monitor, until it lands on a figure lounging on the side sofa. Matthew sits there, lean and impeccably dressed in a charcoal suit that seems out of place among the medical monotony. His dark hair is perfectly styled, not a strand out of place, and his steel-gray blue eyes are fixed on you with an unnerving intensity. He places his phone on the armrest, then crosses his arms over his chest, the fabri…