** THE LAKE HOUSE LIES** part 2(Final part )
** THE LAKE HOUSE LIES** By "Sarthak Rawat PROLOGUE .The room was quiet, too quiet for comfort. A kind of stillness that settled like dust in old places—too long undisturbed, too heavy with memory. Dr. Vale sat hunched on the edge of his leather armchair, elbows braced on his knees, the corners of his notebook frayed and curling like dry leaves. He wasn’t looking at the pages anymore. His eyes had shifted to the woman across from him—the one who sat curled up like a child on the cracked sofa, her gaze far away, as if staring through the beige walls of his office into a world only she could see. "Ellie," he said at last, his voice soft, almost apologetic. “You’ve been on medication, in and out of therapy, tried grounding exercises, EMDR, hypnotherapy… Six years of fighting. And yet…” His sentence trailed off like fog dispersing in cold air. He didn’t need to finish it. Ellie Mercer knew the end of that thought. She lived it every day. Panic attacks that gripped her lung...
