ckening fingers and shattered against the ma

ten seco

vulsive expansion. He sucked in a ragged, te

green lines spiked into jagged, screaming red peaks. A high-pitche

inger tightened on the trigger, the knuckle going white. "What did you do to him?

e didn't flinch. The barrel aimed at h

y calm. "Unless you want to explain to him wh

the depths of his chest. The veins in his neck bulged against his skin

ers, his knuckles standing out stark white against his clenched fists. A sheen of c

st! Get the crash cart!" the chief physician screamed, lunging

ck

d with agony, but it carried the absolute, unquestionable authority of

eir tracks as if they'd

waves. He slowly lowered his chin, his dark, pain-filled eyes st

lled in his eyes. They didn't fall, b

is voice shook-actually

A corpse attached to a living body. Pain meant the nerves w

o the marble floor. Morgan's knees buckled, and he dropped to the ground beside the wheelchair, his m

silence, their expensive medical degrees su

iness. She pulled out a set of specialized micro-current neur

" Ayla ordered Morga

He gently, almost reverently, lifted Aron's massive frame from the whee

ily muscled calves-muscles that had atrophied only slightly thanks to aggressive physical therapy. She peeled the backing

in dial on the portable machine, her

ipped loose from her tight bun, brushin

steady pulse beating in the hollow of her throat. A crisp, clean scent of mint and cold rain dri

pped the

the muscles in Aron's legs began to twitch and

with minute precision, her eyes locked on his muscle responses, her face a mask of intense,

clicked the

ath that seemed to come from

est still heaving. He focused every ounce o

e come to life-his big toe twitched. It m

The doctors gasped collectively, on

he toxin is neutralized. The nerve pathways are open. There will be significant muscl

ething darker, heavier, more consuming. It was the look of a man who had found

rough and intense. "Money. Property. Lives. Anything you want-

arp, final sound. She looked up, meeting hi

t your money