heart monitor echoed in the sterile VIP

illed with violent adrenaline. He was a large man with broad shoulders a

hrough his chest, forcing a low groan from his lip

r beside the bed and slammed the nurse call button. "B

ers wrapping around Finn's wrist with bone-crushing fo

was no one else. Just you, and six highly trained assa

. His mind flashed back to the torrential rain. The slender figure.

. The wound that should have killed him was already itch

shock. "Mr. Yates, this is impossible. There is an unknown cellular-repair agent in your bloodstream. T

into shards of ice. H

e arm and shoved him toward the door. "You saw nothing

shut. The room

eedle out of the back of his hand. A drop of bloo

dge of the bed. His bare fee

tood up. His posture was perfectly straight, his m

down at the rainy streets of Seattle. "Use every underg

g a tablet from his jacket. "Sir... the board of elde

mind was entirely consumed by the phantom touch of the woman in the rain. The

e swapping the bride. Instead of the adopted daughter, they are send

m a recycling bin for their garbage? They think the

ther sofa. His long fingers began to tap a slow, rhythmic beat

ian said coldly. "I'm

in surprise. "T

"I'm breaking the engagement personally. I will not have any woman's na

st house of the Lott Estate, Aur

ne buzzed on the

the screen. It was a single string of digits. Dami

uched Aurora's lips.

with a towel, ready to make the call that woul