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Chapter 56 - Hillary Handley

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Elara's POV

"You look terrible," Sullivan said.

"You collapsed in your own boardroom and I flew here from a crime scene. Between us we've had quite a morning." I pulled the chair to his bedside and sat, and his hand found mine on the blanket before I'd finished sitting, which told me more about the last twenty minutes than any chart could. "The nurse said you were holding the doctors hostage."

"Negotiating." His color was wrong — grey under the tan, the tan itself thinner than it had been on a
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