g through flesh was sickening

ed line tore across Jane's left cheek

attered against the floor tiles. Jane's eyes rolled back.

His heart violently seized in

d, his hand reaching out to catch her. But his conscious mind s

blood quickly spread across the white tiles a

am. She covered her mouth and st

saw the blood. The shrill sound of a medic

urgeon and Carson's closest friend, sprinted

son before dropping to his knees beside Jane. He pressed a

gurney! Move!"

and rushed her down the hall to

He stared at the puddle of blood on the floor. H

ion down. It's a trick, he told himself. She di

n. Carson ripped his tie loose. He walked down t

off. Freeman walked into the lounge. H

the ashtray. "Is she dead?" he a

oked at Carson with a heavy, complicate

nty-eight stitches on her face. She

ff. "She asked for it. It

closer. "The cut on her face is nothing, C

"What are you

w. "She has multiple old fractures that healed wrong. Her back and arms are covere

s. "That wasn't a few prison fights. That

s cigarette jerked. Ash fell on

on warden. He told them to give Jane "specia

red them to perma

. But he immediately buried it under a thick layer

arson said coldly. "She got what she de

. She is severely malnourished. Her body

ake the medical fil

ning his back to his friend. "We a

easily spotting the frantic tensio

began to wear off. Jane's eyebrows twit

aring pain radiated from the left side of

She was alive. And being alive me