e ground. The world was a spinning bl

he clinic and practically threw her onto the l

wearing a crisp white coat. He took one look at A

grabbed a gauze pad soaked in medical alcohol

a sharp hiss es

t the doorframe, his arms c

, his voice echoing in the quiet roo

er heart hammered against h

her elbows. "It's just a scrat

etely. He looked at Call

hoscope from his neck and s

er chest, he would hear the massive, i

etal disc against her che

assed. Callum

slightly to the left, listening closer. He heard

and looked down at Alya, his e

speak, Alya looked

loud. "I contracted it during a reporting embed in

like a shield, daring the docto

toward Archer. "I should hook her up to th

paper-lined table. Her palm

vy vibration bu

ulled out a sleek, encrypted black phone. H

cure line fro

with suspicion, a silent message passing between the two men that he wasn't buying a word of h

lked out into the hallway, pulli

p. The feigned weakness vanished from he

ked at

pping to a lethal whisper, "I will publish the import manifests show

hand hovering ov

ndling scandals, but the absolute certainty in

his hands in the air, step

ed. Archer walked back in, bring

Archer d

d concussion. Extreme fatigue. The arrhythmia is consistent with

d forth between the two of them, his inst

had n

t on," Archer

idled outside a modest apartment b

look back. She didn't say goodbye. She

attle was pacing the floor

s doors with a bandage on her head, she ga

rrifying silhouette of the Escalade, and the da

s slid open. M

p to Ginger and handed her a thick, matte bl

ies, you call this number," Marcus

walked back

d that represented the apex of Washingt