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Daws
on, I'm ve
l sympathy. It was the voice of a man deliver
viable. It was a co
he hospital room, each one a hammer bl
m the starched white sheets into my bones, a linger
black I couldn't decipher. Data. Curves. None of it looked like a
ails a desperate anchor to the present moment. A confir
Furthermore, due to the damage from this incident, your c
f the monitor beside my bed seemed t
acked, splintered in
hat "extremely low" meant, but my th
t, professional
choing down the empty hallway, le
change the IV bag. Her eyes, unlike the doctor's
er nurse just outside my door.
usband is Archon Montgomery. You'd
ere needles in my ears. I squeez
s were the drip of the IV and
self up. My personal terminal lay on the bedside
n Montgomery
but to a wall of sound-loud music, lau
cut through, sharp with impat
ength. "Barron..." My voice was a r
et a glass down on a hard s
tomb. "I see. These things happen. Res
a transaction. My heart, a
nd the call, my screen f
request from Juli
s best
numb finger brushed aga
sharp and vivid, material
a. A blonde woman, Erica Beaumont, his first love, was
ing something in her ear that made her lau
seconds before it vanished. Juli
seconds w
rned onto the ba
emor wracked my body, not from cold, but from a
ost our
owing a welcome-home p
ut they weren't tears of grief. They
My gaze, reflected in the dar
ody, and ripped the IV needle from the back of
ge. This on
as o
n the hallway, I walked out of the roo
ed cage they called home. I w
I was goin
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