Chapter 14
“Don’t you dare die on us,” Gage said as he looked down at Ash’s pale face. “It will destroy Kegan if you do.”
Ash was in a bed at an Agency-owned clinic in New Orleans, wires and tubes festooning his body. He was heavily bandaged and on a ventilator, with a chest tube as well, after having undergone surgery to remove a bullet from his chest and repair the damage it had done to his lung and ribs. Thankfully, as far a Gage and the doctors were concerned, the bullet had missed Ash’s heart and spine. Shooting Ash had been the last thing the senator had done before making his escape.
Gage had been dead certain, during his last moments at the house, that was the end for him and his lovers. That they’d all bleed out and die long before any kind of help arrived. Then two men from th
