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heart monitor sliced through the
d up the metal clipboard at the end of the bed, his face a mask of practiced apa
a square of crisp, white medical cotton, her hands moving to drap
of anesthesia and the massive blood loss turned the sterile r
o stop, but her throat was completely dry. Onl
iously incapable
a's skull. It was crisp, female,
ked her head side to side, panic seizing her chest. The
ouncing against the inside of her forehead. My hop
nal certainty slammed into her ribs. A wave of blinding dizziness washed over her, the room spinning wildly. But then, a strange, elect
s brushed the edge
etallic taste of her own blood flooded her mouth, and the sp
out of the back of her hand, sending a spray of wa
around, his eyes
ands up in a placating gesture. "I know this i
g tiles. Her legs buckled instantly, and her knees slammed into the hard floor with
her head shrieked. Get up! The bad
s. Ten years of blind devotion to the hospital's elite staff fractured right down the middle. She di
rabbing Allegra's upper arm
abdomen gave her a burst of terrifying strength, sending
dge of the incubator. Her trembling hands reached inside aapped, his professional facade cracking. "This is a severe viola
one. Beneath her skin, against her own racing pulse, she felt it. A fl
sighed in her mind. S
dstream like liquid fire. Her daugh
ss-steel surgical scissors. She gripped the handles, pointing the sharp, curved blades directly at Dr. Carver's cahing but the rabid, unhinged violence of a mother backed in
screamed, spinning toward the
ssing the sharp tips hard against
d out on this floor. And the Bartlett family will spend the next fifty years maki
ng violently. Dr. Carver's face drained of color. He knew
, her chest heaving. "And the thickest c
ing a wheelchair over and tossing
letely. She kept the scissors gripped in her right hand, her
commanded. Avoid the main nurse's station.
ing, but she ignored it. She grabbed the wheels and pushed, rolling
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