{"id":31717,"date":"2025-11-14T13:14:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T13:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=31717"},"modified":"2025-11-14T13:15:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T13:15:33","slug":"31717","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=31717","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I turned. Melissa stood in the doorway of her room, twenty yards away, her hospital gown hanging off one shoulder, her face sheet-white. The two women locked eyes across the distance, and I felt the temperature in the hallway drop ten degrees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo,\u201d Courtney whispered, shaking her head. \u201cNo, no, no. Cole, when did you meet her?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s my wife,\u201d I kept my voice level, but my gut tightened. \u201cCourtney, what is it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But she was already backing away, her hands trembling. \u201cYou need to\u2026 God, I can\u2019t. I can\u2019t be the one to\u2026\u201d She spun on her heel and ran. Literally ran, her white sneakers squeaking against the linoleum as she disappeared around the corner.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=31719\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-26790 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/comntinue-reading.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"905\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/comntinue-reading.jpeg 905w, https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/comntinue-reading-300x75.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/comntinue-reading-768x191.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 905px) 100vw, 905px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I turned. Melissa stood in the doorway of her room, twenty yards away, her hospital gown hanging off one shoulder, her face sheet-white. The two women locked eyes across the distance, and I felt the temperature in the hallway drop ten degrees. \u201cNo,\u201d Courtney whispered, shaking her head. \u201cNo, no, no. Cole, when did you&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=31717\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31717"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31731,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31717\/revisions\/31731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}