CHAPTER 22Mara froze and stared into Cam’s eyes without saying a word. She had stopped lowering his head over the gurney and held it between her palms.
“Mara? Why did you stop? Does the word dragon mean something to you? You look a little pale,” Cam said.
Mara snapped from her daze, shook her head to clear her eyes. “I have to go.” She set Cam’s head down sideways on the gurney, so it lay on his right cheek facing her. She stepped back from the gurney. “I’ll come back and reconnect your head in a little while. I’ve got to go help my mother.”
She pulled her phone from her jean pocket and tapped her mother’s listing in her address book. A message popped up on the screen saying the device would run out of power in two minutes. She tapped the option to complete the call, hoping she could ge
