Her fingers clawed at his wrists, nails digg
spilling tears s
issed, his voice low and venomous.
her!" her father ba
hoved her father back onto the
cracked, raw and desperate. "S
ital walls. A door down the hall
d away like he'd been c
ushed in-one shoving between Grayson
need to l
on roared, struggling against t
and unhinged. "You hear me, Tessa? Y
the side of the bed for balance, the gh
taller and broader,
he shouted. "I'm not done with you
st their hold, shou
ne with you,
hroat, her pulse thundering so loud sh
his curses echoing off the white walls
, are you okay?" she asked,
pped to hers,
ing on? What was Gra
***
y lit office, nursing
o second-guess himself, but
to bother him unless
had calle
second. Now, staring at the phone on his desk, h
rse, he grabbed
t straight
again-sa
ease settle
omething h
he saw it had come from a hos
she in a hospital?
er drink. He was already on
hrough the glass doors of the hospital,
at the desk loo
id without wasting time.
"Yes, she came in with her boyfri
w arched
a gold digger looking for a way
Roman pressed.
times." The nurse nodded. "There was... an
erca
t him like a
n her lip, the way she'd lied without h
address?" Roman demanded, adj
, sir. Hosp
own half this building, and your boss is a personal friend.
ce turn
esidence the last time she
Roman snapped, already
g book, scribbled an address onto a slip
on't tell
he said, p
ing out before she f
ed out of the hospital, but his mind wasn'
yfr
mean by "boyfriend"? An
his car, he found Davin waiting
ing alrig
hard enough to make him fli
licked to the r
nurse just told me she came here with her boyfriend."
Boyfriend? Now th
" Roman cut him off. "I want to know who t
aze fixed on the n
ice cold. "We're going t
. The engine growled to life, and
***
and ginger, the kind of calm Gina always surroun
couch, a blanket over her legs, preten
tes at the hospital-Grayson's voice, his grip,
ld still
you... Or that bast
rippled th
as all a misunderstanding, but it wouldn
ftly from the armchair across
arted... but wh
nborn baby in the middle of a hospital
ile instead. "It's not
nced, but before she could ask anything
her hands on her jeans
her voice lifted in c
lackwood," th
e. She put the cup of tea down g
uinn," Roman continued, h
glancing back tow
eart s
very step feeling h
r, her eyes locked onto h
re you doing he
ike the question insu
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