Rus

ped across the plastic cover of the nurse's file with a sharp, g

her path, my broad sho

I stated, my voice a low growl.

inst my chest, but it was l

of my eye, I saw

high as he pretended to st

liberate exaggeration and th

alling towar

ctly toward Sienna'

ins. Before my mind could fo

ena and threw myself across the

sted, taking the brutal impact of Julia

into the wall, but I kept

ienna's lips, her hands

rieked, grabbing Julian by th

heir eyes widening as they saw t

hand against a red emerg

age for the Don's heir!" the n

of the double doors, pu

e, carefully lifting Si

scene-the gurney, the urgent shouts, the very real possibil

es locked on Sienna, my hear

near the operating theater, ho

instantly, my hand steady while a

eps echoed d

come from the pediatric wing, carrying my cryi

, reaching her sma

ng doors, my rigid posture sof

ng," I ordered my second-i

toward us, her hand trembli

ay with enough force

rriage certificate from my breast pocket a

ir at all costs," I com

my second-in-command's arms. The sound of my daughter's cry seemed to finally break through