Chapter 2 - The Lethal Dose
Marco moved faster than the fake nurse could ever react.
He grabbed her wrist and twisted it sharply until a suppressed handgun clattered onto the linoleum floor.
I kicked the weapon under the hospital bed and pinned the woman against the cinderblock wall.
I demanded to know exactly what she was planning to inject into my pregnant wife.
The woman choked on her own breath and refused to speak a single word to me.
I applied more pressure to her throat and promised her that my patience was entirely gone.
She finally sobbed and confessed that she had been hired to induce a fatal cardiac arrest.
I asked her how much money Julian Mercer had paid her to commit this murder.
The assassin shook her head wildly while tears streamed down her panicked face.
She swore that she had never even met my younger brother.
She claimed that the assassination contract had been issued by my trusted corporate attorney.
Vance Sterling had been my closest legal advisor and best friend for over fifteen years.
I released the woman and signaled for Marco to securely bind her hands with medical tape.
My entire empire was built on a foundation of absolute lies and terrifying betrayals.
I walked over to the hospital bed and gently brushed a strand of hair away from Elena’s sleeping face.
Her beautiful eyes slowly fluttered open as the hydrating fluids finally began to restore her strength.
She looked up at me with profound fear and tried to pull her hand away from mine.
I whispered that she was completely safe now and that I knew the truth about our baby.
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Elena began to weep as she frantically touched her swollen stomach to check on our child.
She pulled me close to her face and whispered a secret that made my blood run completely cold.
