im go,

o drop his hands. Shoving the chief surgeon aside, the old patriarch stumb

ess like a broken porcelain doll. Beside her, the heart monito

touched her cold, bluish cheek. His shoulders sagge

I didn't find you and yo

till eyelashes. Standing behind his father, Aries stared at the tin

untain water striking ancient stone-echo

ale gold light rose from the dark-green stone, coiling in midair in the shape

um

eat echoed through the

itors slapped both hands over her m

ke shot upward. The heart rate and blood pressure num

s rushing in behind the

has resumed! Brainwave activity is off

eir eyes. Beneath the thin hospital gown, the child's fractured sternum shifted back

, Ellwood wiped his wet cheek with the ba

e Bond family! Not even Death himse

ross every doctor and nurse in the room,

et. If anyone leaks half a syllable to the outside world, I won't just revoke

surgeons bowed low, cold sweat

bulletproof floor-to-ceiling windows of the top-floor pr

headboard where he had kept watch for eight straight ho

uttered, and a pair of cle

d been shocked. "A-Awake! Sweetie... yo

mth and shared bloodline coming from the handsome m

can I ha

spot. With red-rimmed eyes, he leaned down and

rifying vision played out behind her eyes: in that dark, leaking apartment, her mother Farrah was tied to a concrete pillar

hing wail, kicking her little l

he bad man is tearing Mommy'

like a bucket of ice water, followed by a surge

-law and my niece is dead! I'll