The Kidney He Stole: Ava's Reckoning

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lo

e and panicked, echo

ere was a tremor! An eart

ly registered by any

al bed in an instant, shrug

o to Chloe.

Ava, who lay pale a

ater, his face a mixtu

, he runs. Doesn't matter if he's just had surgery, doesn'

oice flat. She felt a strange detachmen

"He's obsessed. He'll destroy himse

nodded.

ow discharged, showed up a

solicitou

you sure you're okay aft

his own mad dash

an," Ava said,

on his lips, "we never really got to finish what we started at the

ge the proposal. As if

nsive suit, the confident post

ile touched her li

she said softly.

d. He thought he w

arity gala that eve

ming, holding her hand

th her, to project an i

t to happen later, at a

Chloe's machinatio

the gala, Ethan's p

, his face

id, his voice tight

ke

ned, his eyes darting around. "Someone I

ad likely press

ommissioned Bridge. He wants... me

, pulling her towards h

e Seattle night, the

bridge loomed ahead

at the edge, holding

ee, wild-eyed

You ruined my life! Now I

ar, jumping out. He

n!" Ethan shouted, his voi

d pointed straight at Ava,

ruly love, the one I can't

He was using her.

e, his eyes shifting fr

Chloe.

was to move, to shield Chloe, who was al

shoved v

edge of the bridge, the dar

she