iles of the clinic floor fo

e wall, using the cold tile to drag her violently trembling body upward. Every

h the heavy interior latch. It took three agonizing attempts, her nails crac

ture wound on her left arm. She stumbled out of the blood-draw room, the

urtis found out she had escaped the panic

the elevator bank,

tepped directly into her

vision was so blurry it took her two f

Jeral

sheveled dress, and his eyes filled with frantic co

oice a broken rasp. She slapped his han

stomach. "Why are you here?

paralyzing thought of Allie actually being sick and alone had completely overridden his logic. He couldn't risk ignoring

wave of pure, suffocating

drained her blood, and the stepsiste

avily against the wall to keep from falling. "You are

ity. He thought she was suffering from Stockholm

lunged forward and grabbed both of her shoulders, pulling her toward

away. She shook her head weakly, tears of pure frustratio

e hallway near the lobby entrance, a man i

mily bodyguards, dispatched

ly raised his phone, zoomed in on the s

e harsh clinic lights. She turned her head slowly, her eyes straining to focus on the end of the corridor. T

iterally turned to ice.

d her system. She opened her mouth and sa

led, recoiling and dro

im, stumbling down the hallway like a bro

desperate, terrified retreat. For the first time, a sickening

walled boardroom of the

g to a multi-billion dollar merger proposal.

h-resolution photo from his s

, and Jerald Burke had his hands firmly gripped on

nic room, defied his absolute authority, just to sn

ls contracted

massive hand tightened around the barrel. With a s

les and splattered all over the mil

ence. The executives stopped breathing, terrified to

heelchair around and rolled out of the boardroom,

clinic, Allie practically fel

ust watched her leave, acting as a grim re

York traffic. Allie leaned her head agai

lyzing fear of what Curtis was going to do to her forced her to stay awake. The physical