All Chapters of The Mafia Boss’s Captive Doctor: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

“I'm not signing. I didn't order that medication.”Evelyn Hart pushed aside the incident report beside her resignation letter. Its final line said a child had died because she had ordered the wrong medication.Adrian Cross laughed on the other end of the phone.“Don't you understand? I'm offering to let this end with your name on it.”“You performed the surgery. Let's compare the original records first.”“Dr. Hart. Do you honestly think another hospital will take you?”The son of the chairman of Harwood University Hospital. The surgeon who had left that operating room before she did. What he had left behind wasn't the evidence needed to establish why the child had died. It was a piece of paper assigning all the blame to her.Evelyn touched her pen to her printed name.“I'll find that out for myself.”She ended the call. Her hand shook so badly that it took her a second attempt to set the phone down.2:14 a.m. Harwood University Hospital, Republic of Westmere. Even after being told to

Marco started to follow, then pressed his hand back against the padding. Evelyn made room for the nurse beside the child.“Marco, I need you to move for a moment too. We need to get equipment in here.”Once he had secured the panel and moved aside, the equipment came in. Dane stood in the doorway, looking at the boy under the bed. A bare foot protruded from the curled-up body, dragging weakly across the floor.Then the boy's head dropped.“Leo.”Something changed in Evelyn's voice. His chest was barely moving.Dane crossed the threshold. As Evelyn positioned herself at the boy's head, the nurse connected the monitor. The doctor came in after them with equipment to support his breathing.“Contact the hospital. He needs to be transferred.”At Evelyn's words, the doctor looked at Dane.“His guardian said he wasn't to be taken off the island—”“We can't wait here any longer.”Dane withdrew the arms he had reached out to lift him. Evelyn and the nurse took their places at the boy's head. B

Dane's eyes returned to her.“If I'd been at the hospital, I could have shown them these papers first. Now I have to explain why I ran away before anything else.”Evelyn glanced at the boy and lowered her voice.“Don't send anyone to help me. Whatever I say, they'll claim you put me up to it.”From Marco's phone came a subordinate's voice, saying he would go to the hospital. Dane took the call.“Stay away from that hospital. I'll answer for who was acting on my orders.”He sent the guards down the opposite corridor. Evelyn saved the article to her own phone and returned Marco's. When she sent her friend the name of the hospital they were going to, her own face was still on the screen. She hadn't signed the paper that made her take all the blame. But in the article, she was already a fugitive.As the stretcher began to move, Leo looked for her. Evelyn brought her uninjured arm close. Dane started to take the rail on the other side, then saw the boy pulling her sleeve and let go. The nu

Marco started to take the key, then pointed toward the stairs.“If we clear that area, we'll need more people checking access.”“Use the west conference room. Receive visitors there. Only send people this way if they're here to see Leo.”The men moved out beyond the stairwell. When Marco emerged from the vacated bedroom carrying a small chair, Dane stopped him.“Put that in Leo's room.”“He used it when he used to sleep in here.”“I know.”A child's scribbles still marked the chair legs. Evelyn held the door as Marco carried it through. Leo had once slept peacefully in this corridor too.Dane's phone rang. A call from the port. The voice carried into the corridor: if he missed today's negotiations, they would give his unloading slot to someone else.“I'm going to the police this morning.”The caller added that it was his uncle's wish. Dane walked to the window.“Then put it in writing as my uncle's proposal. Include the terms you sent the captains.”His voice lowered after that. Evely

Then her phone rang. Olivia had sent a message asking her to check the dates connected to the research funds mentioned in the foundation's article.Evelyn replied that she would call right away. The questions had come from the hospital, and her friend had to get back to her own work soon.Dane pulled Evelyn's unfinished bowl toward his side of the table. As she stood, he opened a room farther down the corridor for her.“Finish eating when you're done.”“I need to make this call first. They need an answer today.”From inside came Evelyn's voice calling to Olivia. Dane told the captain waiting for a returning boat to keep the boat for medical trips separate from the cargo boat. As he listened to the additional cost, the woman in the room laughed.He picked up her bread, then put it down. When she came out, she sat and took 2 more bites. She said she had to go send her own documents soon. Dane settled back into the chair he had been about to rise from.***On day 7 after arriving on the