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

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

moment, he suddenly felt it and sighed with relief, There it is, he tho

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

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emed to be in his late 20s, broad-shouldered, deep blue eyes like the oce

squinted, her head hurting from all the se

ce, those eyes...they had stared back

ey! The socialite

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

with a doctor at his side. After the docto

lor demanded from the doctor as th

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

t," Taylor responded

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

other man, taking him in as the two continued their

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

Taylor was slightly slenderer than the man who was standing

arty boy! Why are the Greys here?! What is going on?! She thought to herself, as she struggled to hear wha

his shoulder and pointed his

iddle of my meeting! And there are press people outside this hospital right now! I have lawye

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

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

===

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