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spilling tears s

issed, his voice low and venomous.

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hoved her father back onto the

cracked, raw and desperate. "S

ital walls. A door down the hall

d away like he'd been c

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need to l

on roared, struggling against t

and unhinged. "You hear me, Tessa? Y

the side of the bed for balance, the gh

taller and broader,

he shouted. "I'm not done with you

st their hold, shou

ne with you,

hroat, her pulse thundering so loud sh

his curses echoing off the white walls

, are you okay?" she asked,

pped to hers,

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o second-guess himself, but

to bother him unless

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he saw it had come from a hos

she in a hospital?

er drink. He was already on

hrough the glass doors of the hospital,

at the desk loo

id without wasting time.

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w arched

a gold digger looking for a way

Roman pressed.

times." The nurse nodded. "There was... an

erca

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n her lip, the way she'd lied without h

address?" Roman demanded, adj

, sir. Hosp

own half this building, and your boss is a personal friend.

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Roman snapped, already

g book, scribbled an address onto a slip

on't tell

he said, p

ing out before she f

ed out of the hospital, but his mind wasn'

yfr

mean by "boyfriend"? An

his car, he found Davin waiting

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hard enough to make him fli

licked to the r

nurse just told me she came here with her boyfriend."

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" Roman cut him off. "I want to know who t

aze fixed on the n

ice cold. "We're going t

. The engine growled to life, and

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and ginger, the kind of calm Gina always surroun

couch, a blanket over her legs, preten

tes at the hospital-Grayson's voice, his grip,

ld still

you... Or that bast

rippled th

as all a misunderstanding, but it wouldn

ftly from the armchair across

arted... but wh

nborn baby in the middle of a hospital

ile instead. "It's not

nced, but before she could ask anything

her hands on her jeans

her voice lifted in c

lackwood," th

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uinn," Roman continued, h

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very step feeling h

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