Chapter 24: The Mirror
Chapter 24: The Mirror
Chloe stood alone in the cold glare of the bathroom light. She didn't look away from the reflection.
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Her fingers gently traced the edge of the plastic stoma pouch strapped to her abdomen. She looked at the brutal, angry surgical scars carving across her small stomach. Before, she had pulled the blankets over her head, suffocating in a dark, paralyzing shame.
But today, her jaw tightened. The reflection staring back wasn't the broken, weeping girl from the hospital bed. It was a girl who had walked through the absolute depths of hell and climbed out alive. The scars weren't a mark of the monster's victory. They were the brutal, undeniable proof that she had won.
