said as he knelt beside King. He took a pair of surgical scissors from his
th, Dr. Evans stopped. He stared at the neat rows of antiseptic wipes, the precise applicati
his shoulder at the anxious butler. "Wh
the silent, blood-stained woman standing in the c
. He hated being the center of this pathetic spectacle, hate
wound. "It's clean, no signs of tendon damage, luckily. But you'll ne
ft, a heavy silence descended on the room. Alf
help you
rom the floor back into the uprighted wheelchair. But King was dead weight from the wais
ity guards, of course. But he couldn't bear the thought of mor
nting, and King's face was a t
of weary resignation. She placed the tab
one not unkind but firm. She gent
rmission, hooking her arms under his,
ried to shove her away, but his injured right arm wa
t next to his ear. She braced her legs, using a perfect lifting technique
. To stabilize the awkward weight, her left hand slid down his side, her
hand made con
flicker. A tiny, almost imperceptible twitch of the mu
feeling of atrop
est of neurological signs, went on high alert. It
pressing deeper into the muscle, sea
faint, resistant tremo
gn that he had felt it, any flicker of awareness. But all she saw was pure, unad
ecialists had told him his legs were gone forever, and he believed them. But h
om her face. With a final, controlled burst of strength,
at the sleeve of his suit where she ha
heating video, the marriage license, the revenge against her family-it all suddenly seemed tr
t. She needed to run a
icked up the tablet. Her original plan was back in
ble. She held the tablet in front of his fac
lay on the file n
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