e index and middle fingers of his left hand on her neck to check f

elt a crazed panic rising within him. He pulled his h

h every passing moment, he suddenly felt it and sighed wi

not

d, she's

led vehicle and sat on the roadside,

he ambulance to show up and he had ridde

his head, and they were in his head right now as he

I goin

her going to d

med to be in his late twenties, broad-shouldered, deep blue eyes like the

squinted, her head hurting from all the se

ce, those eyes...they had stared back

Taylor

ocial

s he

aned in closer and Karen could smell his cologne

voice hit her ears. She tried to say 'Yes

his voice gentle but with a hint of wo

nked once

ely above a whisper as he gazed at

doctor," Taylor said as he

he door ope

and without realizing

Taylor came back in wi

ecked her, he and T

lor demanded from the doctor as th

also need to get some rest. Have you had a checkup since las

t," Taylor responded

versation going on at the foot of her bed. She opened her e

other man, taking him in as the two continued their

ck hair and hard, deep blue eyes. A wide brow and a strong chi

Taylor was slightly slenderer than the man who was standing

father – Ma

uiet bil

always in the news

the Grey

s goin

t the head of one of the most powerful families in t

his shoulder and pointed his

?" He shouted, the rage

outside this hospital right now! I have lawyers on standby to swing

him and turned his gaze away, his b

e?!" Marshal growled, h

father with blazing eyes,

al bed, unaware that she was awake and could hear what was being sa

k at his father, "What do you think?" He growled, his

face. "If this person dies, you wait, you just wait.

hough they were heavy-lidded; probably from the drugs, he thought d

itedly, and he walked briskly o

entrance of the roo

t, her expression betraying the fact that she had heard at least part of

fter Karen woke full

r asked. He was her attending physician. She secretly called him Doctor Bear, because

ng at all this," she glanced down at her heavily bandaged right arm

bandages. "I mean, how..." her voi

acing a hand on her shoulder. He looked sideways at the nurse beside hi

you here and you really ha

...? How do I...," she asked, tears starting to