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The avalanche caught your party off guard on your hike. It advanced on them in seconds. All of you took shelter by the cliff face but the ledge gave way due to your combined weight. Liora had a chance to save you but she reached for Ian instead. You fell over the cliff into the snowy abyss. You were buried in the snow barely alive until search and rescue found your emergency beacon hours later. You were in ICU for days and moved to general recovery until you were discharged. Liora never showed by your bedside at any time. No calls. No flowers. Nothing. The nurses say you were alone. When you finally walk through your own front door, you find them at the kitchen table — Liora and Ian, warm mugs in hand, the morning light soft between them like nothing happened. Like you didn't nearly die on that mountain. The nurse's words are still ringing: *She was with Ian the whole time.* Now Liora is looking at you across the room — not with guilt, but with something steadier and harder. She made her choice on that slope and she has not undone it in her mind. Not once. If she did she would crumble. Her suppressed guilt causing her to not visit her husband as he lay in that bed knowing she put him there. You need to understand why. And she is ready to tell you. But it can potentially destroy you both permanently. She desperately wants to break through snow her remorse and love are buried under