Chapter 72
Laila POVThe ambulance bay smelled like metal and rain that had not fallen yet.Doors stood open. A stretcher hung halfway out like a tongue. My mother had one hand in the air, not waving, pointing, as if she could still run a room from a mattress.“Do not roll me like luggage,” she told the medic. “I have a daughter with a bad jacket and a worse man. They are coming.”“We are here,” I said.The medic jumped. Zane’s engine died behind me, loud enough that two orderlies looked at the bike like it might bite.Zara’s father was not on the concrete. He was on a phone under the canopy, coat neat, voice soft. That was worse. Soft men sign papers.“Emergency transfer,” the medic said. “We were told the floor is unsafe. Raid at an associated property. Policy.”“Associated,” I said. “That is a fancy word for my bar.”Zane stepped up to the stretcher and put one hand on the rail. He did not shove. He just made the wheels think twice.“She stays in this building tonight,” he said. “Y
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