The cardiac specialist's office was on the fourth floor of the same building. Dr. Peralta made the referral while they were still in the room, and the specialist — a quiet, precise woman named Dr. Holt — had a cancellation at three that afternoon and could see them immediately if they wanted to wait.
They waited.
Which meant Damian and Kane spent two hours in a corridor on the fourth floor of a Manhattan clinic, on opposite sides of a small window that looked out over 68th Street, while Lila sat between them and read nothing from the magazine on her lap and said very little.
It was Damian who broke first. Not with a scene — he was past scenes. He simply looked at Kane across the corridor, directly, and said: "If something's wrong with him — with either of them — I need to know the same
