na's
from the neonatal
came final. When the chaos erupted,
own the corridor as doctors s
screaming in hysterics: "My
nurses' station, pulled up the electronic feeding log,
act volume and timing of every formula feed
one of them shouted back, frantic -
rd "formula," and her f
trembling finger ai
corridor. "She poisoned the bottle! She wants to ki
boomed across th
rough the double doors, a
re bloodsho
happened. He didn't e
straight
e an iron vise, hard enough to crush bone,
e roared, loud enough
was walking into a lion's den, so I had used the last of my private money - what remained of my own earnings from before t
oom is in my hands," I said, perfectly calm. "So
idn't even glanc
alentina sobbing behind
ped on the po
slamming into the metal fire-extin
esh and bone hitting stee
gh my shirt, ripping open the oldnd dripping from my elbow, splattering a sh
at that pool of bl
and at the mass of thick-necked enforcers flooding the co
eathe on his own, she doesn't t
back, striding into the trauma
ssing my hand hard against the bleeding
ing hour
om opened, and the attending physician em
s a common newborn condition - secretions blocking the airway. It had no
gid by the door, ab
s head and looked at
the first time, a flicker of genu
se behind, caught that f
- and pressed her entire hand down on my
You'll always be the villain." She hissed t
nd my teeth against the sear
e the guards were distracted, slipped soun
e and called the fam
ecords," I ordered, my voice cold to the bone. "And file the claw-back suit
g up, the phone
t up the screen,
bulletproof car will pick yo
r of my own blood from the scr
y goodbye t
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