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"I have the test results from the lab here in your chart I understand you run a lab for Mr Genaro" The surgeon tossed the folder on the bed "Read them for yourself" He turned and left the room

Lawson picked up the chart and threw it at the door, shouting after the doctor until his voice gave out, and then collapsed and covered his face with his shaking hands They wouldn’t give hi hi But he didn’t blaht be asbitches of the world

Like Jessa Bellamy, the cunt from hell who had done this to hi she could do to him was to have her asshole boyfriend cut him up and cripple him And there was no way in the world Bradford Laas spending the rest of his life on crutches or in a wheelchair while that snotty little tra to be sorry she’d ever thought of fucking with hiet out of here, now

His head felt as if it were going to split open, but he forced himself to calm down He couldn’t risk any ht about the liver da to fix the proble; he couldn’t stay here and let them fumble around with him, not when every minute he spent on his back was one that Jessa Bellaht he was too o after the bitch, but Lawson knew better He’d li slut back out and show her exactly how e a blade could do He could call Genaro and find out if they had her yet, and de her down, but the old er than he had to, not now

All Lawson needed was a good leg, and so to knock back the pain He could steal theas the sudden h He didn’t need to stealThe answer to all his probleuarded around the clock

A secure storage to which Lawson had the key code Guarded by techs and security orked for him

He eyed the wheelchair, which had a roped for the phone beside the bed After getting the duive him an outside call line, he phoned a car service he used for special appointun, and a driver who could keep hisout of the hospital bed took the last of his strength, but every tiined the Bellaed to drag the wheelchair around the bed and hoist hi and covered in sweat

The driver slipped into the roo Lawson’s bloodstained bandages a troubled look, silently offered hiht by his hip The driver then wheeled him out into the hall

No one stopped them on the way out, but Laould have shot anyone who tried The driver had to lift him from the chair into the back of the car, which nearly ain, and then drove him from the hospital to GenHance’s don headquarters

Lawson sent the driver away as soon as he was back in the wheelchair outside the main entrance Delaporte came out personally to open the doors for him

"Mr Lawson" The chief of security wheeled hi hih, just as Lawson had hoped "Mr Genaro will be out until e wrapped around Lawson’s thigh "Shouldn’t you be back in the hospital?"

"One of my sources called me about Bellamy’s medical history," he lied "I have to pass the infor to Kirchner so he can avoid the same problems with the new acquisition"

"If you’ll tell me, I can--"

"Jonah already thinks I’ his voice low and humble "Please, let me do this much It’ll prove to him that I can still be useful"

Delaporte’s expression didn’t change, but his tone did "All right But once you’re through with Kirchner, you’ll let uys take you back to the hospital"

Lawson nodded "Absolutely" He reached for the wheels and propelled hiainst the fresh burst of pain that erupted froh Once inside the elevator, he wrapped his hand around the gun, but Delaporte didn’t follow him inside

On the top floor, Laheeled out, checked the hall, and then rolled doard theon the new acquisition, so he didn’t worry about being discovered

Only one tech reht, and he opened the door for Lawson as soon as he saw hi what happened to you" Carl Linder’s eyes widened as he took in Lawson’s appearance "Jesus, I mean, sir--are you okay?"