environment. A sudden, unexplainable cold crept up her back as she changed the strap of her shoulder bag. A chilly,
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itted outfit looked as though it had been created from shadows. She had known of him previously. Cold, calculating, and cruel, a doctor, a CEO, a guy wit
that enterprise was se
gh it were the weight of an unbroken storm. Though her feet felt like lead, she straightened he
gaze's chill hit her like a slap, and for a short while, the sound of the hospital, the
ceptibly, as if he had already
ould continue down the corridor, she heard him mutter j
t, "Welcome to the department, Melissa." Though the burden of Alex's remarks remained, Melissa gave a tight
greetings, a symphony of professionalism yet below it, something almost... clinical, peop
y of so much established power. Her eyes moved to the other faces, doctors, st
ass doors, she unintentionally
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of hospital administrators, he spoke with an ease only possible for someone accustomed to demandin
s the intensity, the way his eyes appeared to cut through her like she was
nes. Apart from the gentle glimmer of a desk lamp lighting a tumbler of scotch in his hand,
authority, his influence. But there was an uneasy knot in his stomach that wou
sa St
the others. She was unique. Inexperienced, innocent, but clever in her own way.
whose sins Alex had spent years attempting to untangle and destroy. The links
vement in his life had been colored by the sadness of that loss. He had risen to the s
appeared,
gh some perverse destiny had led her to him. Born of treachery, a daughter trapp
air." "I'll make sure you kn
e writing on the paper st
door interrup
" he said, breaking the room's quiet wit
r fingers grazed the edge of a doorframe. Though the speed of the locatio
e in the air, a tension resembling the q
ique was highlighted by the fluorescent lights. A dark blue that looked to suck the light around him, his armor sui
looking
heir contempt. Cold and merciless, they cut through her. Though she couldn't explain it, his gaze bur
she were a bother, a stain he c
urn away, before the acute
me, or face th