chapter fourteen
Eden held his hand for two weeks watching Adam’s face change in expression from day to day and sometimes hour to hour, as though he was dreaming, or internally waging a battle beyond the closed eyelids and his immobile body. The bullet fired by his own client had lodged close to his spine; and though removed, there was some anxious waiting before anyone would know if he’d awaken at all, let alone regain full use of his limbs.
It took some convincing to let the doctors allow Eden this much access to a man so close to death. She was not his wife or next of kin. But Ginny Storm, with a decided take-charge air, convinced the hospital staff, when Eden couldn’t convince them herself, that Eden Rose was the one to hold Adam Cady’s hand.
When he finally emerged from his coma
