nto the exclusive underground garage
e scanned her iris at the security terminal, and the heavy ste
. Do not come down. Lock the door," Adelia ordered
rolling gurney and shoved him under th
abbed a pair of trauma shears. She cut away the ruined, blood-soaked fabric of his shirt, p
gan scrubbing the thick layers of blood and
into focus. High cheekbones. A sharp, aristoc
dripped red water onto the floor as she assessed him. Even unconscious and bleeding out, he radiated an oppressive, d
high-pitched, continuous alarm pierced t
d out of it. The woman
ision across his abdomen, suctioning out pools of dark blood. Her e
. It was resting less than a millimeter against his abdominal aorta. One microscopic
navigated the impossibly tight space. Millimeter by agonizing millimeinked loudly as she dropped ijected a heavy dose of her proprietar
r slowed, settling into a steady,
ke jelly. She leaned back against the edge of the ope
nic chime echo
glass separating the OR from the scrub room, two small faces
glued to the sleepi
es up the bridge of his nose. H
zone, ripping off her surgical c
light tremor. He pointed a finger at the glass. "Lo
rned her head slowly, looking from her so
sockets. The sharp cut of his jaw. It was as if she
nds, oblivious to the tension. "When Leo grow
in. Her heart contracted so v
he stared at the man's face, the cedar scent from the garag
churned violentl
scent in the garage had told her six years had not erased the memory of that night. But seeing the evi
r churning stomach. So it's h
Hays, if her suspicions about his identity were correct. A p
didn't have time for th
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