[Music recommendation: Yana Couto - Grey]
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Aliana subconsciously wrapped her own arms around him while trying to calm the panic rising within her. She had not even seen what had happened, but the moment she heard someone say accident, memories of her own deadly accident violently flashed through her mind.
In an instant, her body had been dragged back into that nightmare, trapping her in a fight-or-flight state she could not pull herself out of.
Her fingers unconsciously tightened against his clothes as her body trembled slightly.
But as she felt Gavriel's arms firmly around her and his hand gently rubbing soothing circles along her back, the suffocating panic that had wrapped itself around her heart slowly began to loosen.
Little by little, her trembling body finally started to calm.
Squeezing her eyes shut, she repeated a frantic mantra in her head.
'It's okay. We are okay. This isn't that kind of accident again.'
