LISA'S POV 

After three weeks of regularly updating each other, Steve and I were in touch with each other, discussing every detail of our plan. We had been making great progress, and I was confident that everything was going to work out perfectly.

But as the days went by, I started to feel a little off. I had been experiencing constant seizures and blackouts, and I would often wake up in the morning with a fever. At first, I brushed it off as exhaustion or stress, but as the symptoms persisted, I couldn't shake off the feeling that something was seriously wrong.

Steve noticed that I wasn't my usual self,...