the glass doors of the Manhat
her lip bitten raw. Cradling her scalded right arm against her
ok one look at Gracie's soaked, blistering forear
nd-degree burn!" Clara quickly
is your family? Your husband? So
thin but steady. "I don't have a husb
Clara snapped on sterile gloves and pic
re sleeve were matted and stuck fast to the burst blisters and raw flesh. Ev
lara said gently, pity tightening her voice
," Gracie
ran through Gracie's frame. Cold sweat drenched her hairline, and she bit down hard on the inside of hke out in the hallway outside t
ns hurried down the corridor, practically fal
pped, and our chief hand surgeon is scrubbed
t midnight shows just how much she means to you. If the society pages are r
ding a tiny ice pack against her index finger. Hearing the
er sweet voice carrying down the hall. "Chas is just
hesitate f
I owe Anabella my life, and she is the only woman who belongs beside me. Give her the best
d dripped steadily from Gracie's ra
Drip
he man she had been married to for two years publi
bleeding wound with saline. "Did you hear that rich bastard out there? Making a circus over a
utrage, her voice carryin
d this to your arm meant to do real damage. Say the word, and I
ickered, her voice
final cost of a bad two-year contr
ridor, Chas's foot
-he knew t
looked through the gap in the s
oat, his chest seizing as if
e saw Gracie sitting alone on the ex
as if it had been thrust into an open fire. The skin was peeled back, raw and weepin
s finger barely had a faint pin
anic flashed across her blue eyes. She immediately threw her weight against
ime, Chas didn'
the sliding glass door of the exam room wide openaci
e floor. His gaze locked onto the blood-stained tray and her ra
w did it get bu
mediately, glaring at him. "Sir! Th
ly as he remembered shoving Gracie into the marble
in complete silence as Clara clipped the final elastic
e, Anabella rushed into the room behind Cha
like this?" Anabella cried, clutching C
tried to splash the broth on me, she must have accidentally spilled most of it on herself... It's a
dn't miss a beat, spinning the narrative to cast Gracie as
ally turne
lla's crocodile tears and settled sq
ture Mrs. Hamilton upstairs to the VIP suite right now, that in
nded like a
g. For the first time in his life, he cou
Nurse Clara said, handing Gracie a prescription slip while shooting
" Gracie sa
table, and walked straight toward the door. She didn't spare Chas a
e doors alone, a sharp, ine
ched out and caught her hard
and wounded pride roughening his voice
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