Too Late CEO: The Runaway Wife Returns

the heavy met

in the windowless room. On the hospital bed, Corrie flinched. Her body shrank bac

traints secured to the metal bedrails jerked her wrists back. Th

didn't look at her face. Instead, he raised his

wn landed on her face

orrie's nose. Her stomach cramped violently. She shook her

asped, her voice raw. "Damon,

d her jaw. His fingers pressed hard into her bones, forcing her

gerous rumble. "You stole her identity as my savior, a

led, blurring his harsh features. S

tight. "Why would you rather belie

d on his slacks as if touching her made him dirty. He turned his back

rs of her Rh-null blood," Da

that volume exceeds the safe limit. Taking that much blood at onc

s long as she doesn't die, keep drawing. Kara needs

It felt like a heavy stone drop

es. Her struggling stopped. Her bod

gly large needle from the metal tray. He walked over to the bed

e pierced

e through her skin. She curled her fingers inward, her n

gh the clear plastic tube,

red liquid filled the plastic, the t

breathing turned short and shallow. The heart monitor b

orrie's face. Her lips were completely white. A flash of irri

rie. The bright surgical lights above her sp

ed you," she whispered,

cket, shattering the heavy silen

ed through the speaker. Damon's

y into the phone. "I have the

physical knife twist

out a continuous, high-pitched warning. Corrie'

he needle out of her arm and pressing a th

containing her blood. He turned toward the door,

ry last ounce of e

hispered to his

s stopped. He di

right to make dema

lammed the heavy me

ily tossed his clipboard onto the rolling metal cart near the foot of her bed to free his hands. The sudden movement dislodged a pair of stainless steel medical scisso

e outside of the doo

le tear slipped from the corner of her e

head. Her eyes locked onto the pair of stainless steel medical scissors that had fallen from th

She stretched her right leg out, pointing

toes around the me

soft squeak against the tile. Her

The cart rolled

gers brushed the freezing metal of the scissors.

to saw at the thick leather restraint. Sweat poured down

t hand came free, heavy footsteps echoed in the hallw

tically at the leather binding her left wrist. The thick restraint resisted, the blades slipping against the tough mat

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