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Chapter 255 of "Desert Wind" begins revealing: “If you say that one more time, I’m calling Regan.”That shut me up.Lily knew exactly... Continue the adventure!
“If you say that one more time, I’m calling Regan.”
That shut me up.
Lily knew exactly where to aim.
I went to the locker room.
Took off my cap.
My mask.
My gown.
Scrubbed my hands until they burned.
There was no blood on them anymore.
That did not matter.
I still felt it.
I changed into clean scrubs because the ones I had been wearing felt like they belonged to the worst version of the night. I pulled my hair loose, then tied it back again. Checked my ears in the mirror.
Mandy’s diamonds still there.
Tiny sparks of impossible light.
I touched one with a fingertip.
Then the other.
“I didn’t let him die,” I whispered to no one.
My reflection stared back.
Pale.
Older.
Not healed.
Never that simple.
But standing.
I thought I was ready to face the waiting area.
I expected MC men.
Callum. Rafe. A few San Diego brothers trying not to look like exactly what they were under hospital lights. Maybe men from Santa Fe too, depending how fast the phones had moved. I expected cuts hidden under jackets, boots planted wide, voices kept low because cops loved gunshot wounds and bikers in the same room.
I braced for that.
I did not brace for her.
She stood near the family waiting area with a Styrofoam coffee cup untouched in both hands.
Blonde.