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Chapter 88 - Clawing

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DARIUS

The phone went dead in my hand.

Johnson had hung up on me.

My grip tightened around the device until my knuckles went white and the edges bit into my palm, the sharp pain barely registering through the roar of blood pounding in my ears.

Sera was in the hospital.

In the hospital because of me.

"Damn it!" The curse ripped from my throat as I slammed my fist down on the arm of my chair, the impact jarring up through my elbow but doing nothing to ease the fury and panic churning in my chest.

Around me, the concert hall buzzed with pre-performance energy—people laughing, champagne glasses clinking, the orchestra warming up somewhere backstage. The sounds felt distant and wrong, like they belonged to a different world entirely.

I stood abruptly and pulled up my secretary's number, my fingers fumbling slightly as I pressed call.

She answered on the second ring. "Mr. Blackwood?"

"I need you to find out which hospital Sera is in." My voice came out harsh and clipped, each word bitten of
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