Contract Marriage To The Coldhearted Tycoon

ears could subside, her phone vi

MOUNT SINAI ICU

screen, her voice s

y the harsh blare of hospital alarms and shouting. "Chandler Vanderbilt arrived ten minutes ago with Kirk Capital's private legal tea

eamed, lunging into the street. "I'm co

daline! Security is moving his bed to the servic

ll wen

e sprinted down the avenue, lunged blindly into the midday t

, slamming the door. "Emergency ra

fall over Manhattan. Adaline gripped the door handle until her knuckles turned translu

ambulance bay. Adaline kicked the door open before

oward the service loading dock-and the si

gurney was sitting in the op

y a private security guard. He wore a pristine camel-hair coat, his h

rcibly detaching the portable oxygen

as she threw herself up the concrete incline.

man stumbled, but the hospital's chief administrativ

ucratic coldness. "Kirk Capital has withdrawn their foundational grant matching. We have sixty criticall

-year-old Angus was dre

nerve suppressants, violent, agonizing tremors were already wracking his chest. His lips were tur

d shaking as he reached blindly for h

at my eyes," Adaline sobbed, dropping to her knee

around her brother's soaking body. She wiped the rain from his pale for

head, looking

ears. "He won't survive twenty minutes in this weather without the suppressants. Tell them to put him back inside. You know h

ting second, a flicker of guilt crossed his face. But then he rem

wn car. "If you had just bowed out gracefully yesterday, Fallon might have let the charity grant sl

ed into the warm leather interior

the administrator commanded

tors back through the sliding glass doors, letting the heavy ste

left

ind the hospital loading dock, Adaline s

using her own soaked back to shield him from the relentless rain. Angus's breathing was turning

g, numb fingers, desperately dialing 911, th

ly busy. Estimated wait t

hoked, pressing her forehead against Angus's icy

Eight years of devotion, top honors at Columbia, eighty-hour workweeks-and none of it mattered

ing into a ragged, helpless wail as she felt her b

rain, twin beams of piercing white lig