All Chapters of Bad Medicine: Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

The photo lay between them on the kitchen counter, glowing cold and blue in the dim light.Sienna couldn’t look at it again. The longer she stared, the tighter her chest became, until she swore her ribs would crack from the pressure.Her apartment. Her sanctuary. Violated.“They were here,” she whispered again, though the words felt useless. Obvious. Too small to hold the weight of the truth.Jax stood stone-still, jaw clenched, leather vest hanging heavy on his shoulders. His hands were braced on the counter, knuckles pale from pressure. When he finally spoke, his voice was low enough to scrape the air.“They’re already dead.”Sienna’s head snapped up. “Jax—”“No,” he cut in, sharp and final. “They come near you, watch you, take pictures of you? That’s not a warning shot. That’s war.”Her stomach twisted. “What if it’s someone trying to help? Someone inside Harper’s circle who knows what he’s doing—”He turned, eyes burning. “Helpers don’t lurk outside your window with a camera.”She

The photographs lay scattered across the coffee table, glossy little shards of Sienna’s sanity.Kelly, smiling faintly as she walked into a pharmacy. Kelly, hair pulled back, sunglasses low, stepping off a bus. Kelly, head bent close to a man Sienna didn’t recognize, lips moving like she was laughing at a private joke.All alive. All after that night.Sienna pressed her hands to her temples. The room tilted, as if her own brain had turned traitor.“I zipped the bag,” she whispered. Her voice sounded far away, like it belonged to someone else. “I checked for breath. There was nothing. I wrote her time of death.”Jax crouched in front of her, picking up a photo with two fingers. He studied it like it was evidence at a crime scene.“Then you were meant to.”Her eyes snapped to his. “What?”“They wanted you to believe she was dead. Wanted you to sign off on it. So they could move her without questions.”“That’s insane—”He cut her off, voice flat, steady, lethal. “This is a cover-up, doc.

The glow from her phone screen hadn’t even dimmed before Jax’s voice cut through the silence like a blade.“I hope you just texted who I think you did.”Sienna’s fingers froze around the device. The message was already gone, sent, impossible to call back. Her throat dried up.Slowly, she lifted her gaze.He wasn’t across the room anymore. At some point, Jax had risen from the cot. Now he stood only a few feet away, arms crossed, his face unreadable but his eyes…Those eyes were lethal.“Jax—”“Don’t,” he warned.The word cracked in the air like a whip, making her flinch.For a moment, neither of them moved. The buzzing light overhead flickered, filling the warehouse with jittery shadows.Sienna swallowed, trying to steady her voice. “It was her, Jax. Kelly. She’s alive, she’s scared, and she asked me to come.”His jaw flexed, muscle twitching like a live wire. “And you agreed. Alone.”She hated the way the accusation dripped from his voice, hated the guilt twisting in her chest. But s

The metal keys dangled between Harper’s fingers, chiming softly in the breeze like some cruel wind chime.Sienna couldn’t look away.The word cage hung in the air, heavier than the salt and smoke drifting around them. Her skin prickled cold, even though the night was still.Jax’s stance shifted, lethal and ready. His hand flexed near his knife. “You try to put her in anything, I’ll bury you right here.”Harper smirked, twirling the keys once before slipping them back into his coat. “Brave words, Maddox. But you and I both know—your past has already shackled you. All I’m doing is giving the pretty doctor a matching set.”Sienna felt her stomach twist. Her voice came out sharper than she expected. “I’m not yours. And I’ll never be.”Harper’s smile only widened. “That’s what they all say at first. But cages have a way of changing the song a bird sings.”Kelly whimpered softly from the crate, her head still buried in her hands. “Don’t… please don’t do this.”But Harper didn’t even glance

Got it — Chapter 28 ended on Ethan shocking everyone by saving Kelly and then turning to Sienna with that gut-punch declaration: “I’m here for you.” Now Chapter 29 has to double down on the emotional stakes: Jax vs. Ethan, Sienna stuck between them, Harper bleeding but still dangerous, and a twist that yanks the ground out from under everyone again.For a few heartbeats, the pier was nothing but the echo of Ethan’s words.“I’m here for you.”They sank into Sienna like barbed wire, catching on every old scar, every memory of what they’d once had. Her chest ached, torn between the man she had loved and the man standing like a wall at her back now.And Jax—Jax heard them too.His shoulders went rigid, his knife flashing under the pier light as he stepped forward.“The hell you are,” he growled, voice low, dangerous. “She’s not yours. Not now. Not ever again.”Ethan didn’t flinch. His chest heaved, eyes burning, not with Harper’s cruel coldness but with something sharper, almost desperate