Healed
(2026)(The fifth book in the Devil's Disciples - Dante and Rachel series)
A novel by JM Johnson
Gabriella
I used to think surviving meant disappearing quietly enough that no one noticed what it cost me.
I have done things I cannot undo.
Made choices I cannot justify.
And loved someone I was never allowed to keep.
Now I am living with the aftermath. The betrayal. The blood.
The consequences I thought I could carry alone.
Healing is not gentle.
It does not ask permission.
It drags everything you buried back into the light and demands more from you than you think you have left to give.
Because living with what happened is harder than surviving it.
Vienna
I thought I understood her. I thought I knew the shape of her silence, why she looked at me like she was already gone.
I was wrong.
She was trying to protect me from a life she never wanted me to share.
Now I see everything she tried to hide. The guilt. The cracks. The way she still believes she has to carry the weight alone.
She thinks she can survive without me.
She should know better.
Whatever comes for her will have to come through me first.
They were never meant to survive each other.
But surviving was never the same thing as letting go.
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