Seraphina bit down hard on her lip. Tears slipped down her cheeks unbidden, and from somewhere deep inside her, a fierce, blazing hatred surged up.
She gathered every last shred of strength and yanked the cables, sending the equipment crashing to the floor in a clatter of sparks. Then darkness took her.
"Doctor! The woman on the table is gone!"
The doctor was visibly shaken. He picked up his cracked glasses, looked at the empty operating table, and swore. "Damn it! She can't get out. If word of this gets out, we're all finished!"
In the chaos of righting the equipment, no one had paid the slightest attention to where Seraphina had gone.
His chest tightened. If she made it to the hospital director, there would be no escaping the fallout.
Chloe lay on the floor moaning. "Adrian, it hur
