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Velvet Chains Chapter 189
What Her Father SaidShe did not scream.Vivienne stood in the humming little room with the charred ledger open in front of her and the words burning behind her eyes, and for a long moment she did not do anything at all. She simply stood there, with her bandaged hand pressed against her mouth, and listened to the sound of her own breathing. Then she carefully lifted the sheet of white paper, and laid it back over the page exactly as she had found it, and walked out of the room.Damian was still on the bench in the corridor. He looked up as she came toward him, and she saw his face change.Vivienne? What is it? What's wrong?Not here, she whispered.She led him into the stairwell at the end of the hall, a gray concrete shaft that smelled of floor cleaner and cold air, and shut the heavy fire door behind them. Then she turned, and opened her mouth, and found that she could not say it. Tell me, Damian said gently. He took both her bandaged hands in his. Whatever it is, I'm here. My fath
Velvet Chains Chapter 188
The BeamFoam! Okafor screamed. Calhoun, on the beam!Calhoun swung the gray cylinder around and let loose. A thick white cloud of fire suppressant burst through the gap in the wall and smothered the end of the great beam in a hissing blanket, and for a moment the orange roar around it dimmed. Vivienne could see Alexander through the hole, flat on his face in the rubble, one arm flung out across the dust. His eyes were closed. Alexander!He's breathing, Reyes yelled. He had stopped dragging her backward. He was staring at the gap, and she could see the calculation moving behind his sooty face. Briggs! The pipe! The older marshal had already ripped a six-foot length of rusted iron piping off the boiler wall. He hauled it across the floor and jammed one end under the beam's burning edge, and Reyes grabbed the other end and threw his whole weight against it.Heave! Okafor shouted. On three! One, two, three!They heaved. The pipe bowed. The old oak groaned, and a shower of sparks cascaded
Velvet Chains Chapter 187
Fire in the InfirmaryThe ceiling caught first.A thin sheet of orange flame raced along the silver pipes above the benches, hissing and spitting, and in the space of a single breath the whole laboratory was lit like the inside of a furnace, glass cracked. A shelf of beakers burst with a sound like gunfire. Black smoke rolled down from the beams in a thick, greasy curtain, and Vivienne coughed, and her eyes streamed, and she could taste something sharp and sweet at the back of her throat.Down! Reyes roared. Everybody get down!He had dropped his aim from Lyle's chest and hurled himself across the lab, and caught the little round doctor around the waist. Lyle did not struggle. He went limp in Reyes's arms like a rag doll, and as they crashed to the floor together, he began, very softly, to laugh. You're too late, he wheezed, you're all too late. Why? Okafor demanded, crouching over him. Her voice shook with rage. Why would you do this? You're a doctor. You took an oath. I took many oa
Velvet Chains Chapter 186
CedarbrookIt took Judge Alvarez exactly eleven minutes to get Alexander out of prison. She did it from her kitchen in Brooklyn, in a bathrobe, with a cup of cold tea beside her and a telephone in each hand. She called the warden. She called the regional director, Craig Hollis, who answered on the second ring and listened without a single objection. She called Judge Marsh-Hartley, who said only, Do it. I'll sign whatever you send. And at fourteen minutes past one in the morning, a federal helicopter rose from the roof of a Pennsylvania prison with Alexander Cross strapped into the back, flanked by two marshals, a gray-haired man named Briggs and a young woman named Dana Pruitt. Tell me when you see her, Alexander had said, over the phone, before he hung up. Tell Margaux I'm coming.Vivienne told her.Margaux listened from her hospital bed, propped against three pillows with an IV in her arm, and a small, tired, satisfied smile curved her mouth.Of course he is," she said. That boy has
Velvet Chains Chapter 185
The Blue PillMargaux, don't!The scream tore out of Vivienne's throat in a voice she hardly recognized. She flung herself across the drawing room, and her shoulder slammed into the arm of the old lady's chair, and a small blue pill flew from Margaux's fingers and spun away across the carpet like a tiny, glittering planet.Margaux gave a startled cry. The teacup in her other hand tipped, and tea splashed across the front of her dressing gown, and the silver dish clattered to the floor. Vivienne! she gasped. Have you lost your mind? The pills, Vivienne panted. She was on her knees on the rug, clutching the chair arm, her heart hammering so hard she could barely speak. Did you swallow any of them? Margaux, please. Did you take any tonight? I took the white one, of course, a moment ago, before you.. Margaux stopped. Her sharp gray eyes had sharpened further, and she was staring at Vivienne's white face.What on earth has happened? Dr. Lyle, Vivienne whispered. It's him. He's the one behi
Velvet Chains Chapter 184
Where the Water Is DeepMargaux was in the middle of her morning tea when Vivienne came downstairs, sorting her pills into a small silver dish with the brisk, precise movements of a woman who had done it every day for ten years. One white, one blue, one yellow, she said, without looking up. Dr. Lyle's orders. I take them with breakfast and again at night. I have never missed a dose in my life. Dr. Lyle, Vivienne said, pouring herself coffee. The name meant nothing to her yet. Is he your cardiologist?Since my first heart trouble, ten years ago. A dear, quiet man, a surgeon at Mount Sinai. Margaux dropped the last pill into the dish and frowned. I'm nearly out of the blue ones. I must remember to ask his office for a refill.I'll remind you, Vivienne said, and kissed her cheek, and thought nothing more of it.She would remember that moment for the rest of her life. By nine o'clock, Special Counsel Park's temporary war room on the sixth floor of the federal building in lower Manhattan w
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