CHAPTER 48
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Lauren was sitting in the same chair by Finn’s bedside, her eyes scanning the complex data on the monitor. She had just gently stroked Finn’s hand again, reassured by the faint warmth beneath her fingers, when the door to Room 303 hissed open.
A nurse entered to check Finn's vitals, and as the door slid silently shut, Lauren’s gaze drifted past the closing mechanism and out into the corridor. Her eyes snapped wide open. Ryle was there.
“What the hell…” She mumbled softly under her breath.
He was not visiting, and he definitely was not just passing by. He was standing rigidly next to the supply cart, a dark, intimidating figure entirely out of place among the medical equipment. He was performing his duties with an air of cold, lethal patience. She saw the raw, bruised k
