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"Vishous?" She juh the door ht that you push open Make sure you put on a hazo in to see him¡ª"

Butch¡­ dear God, Butch "What¡ª"

"Do you hear me? Put the suit on and keep it on"

"What ha¡ª"

"Car accident Go Now He&039;s dying"

Marissa dropped the phone and ran fro down Karolyn out in the hall

"Mistress! What&039;s wrong?"

Marissa shot through the dining room, punched open the butler&039;s door, and stumbled into the kitchen As she h heels, so she kicked off the other and kept going in her stocking feet At the bottom of the steps, she entered the security code to the rear entrance of the clinic and burst into the ER&039;s waiting roonored the past Havers&039;s laboratory, she found the doorand slammed it open

As she panted, she looked around at¡­ nothing Just mops and empty buckets and smocks But Vishous had said¡ª

Wait There were faint ested a hidden door opening and closing She shoved the s with her nails, she forced it open and frowned It was soh-tech setup of colow of one of the screens, she saw a hospital bed On top of it, a led and restrained with tubes and wires coed past the yellow haz next to the door and pushed into the rooin in the Fade¡­" Her hand went to her throat

He was definitely dying She could sense it But there was so that set off her survival instincts sure as if she were confronted by an attacker with a gun Her body screaet out, save herself

But her heart brought her to his bedside "Oh¡­ God"

The hospital johnny left his ars bare, and it seeood Lord, he was desperately battered

As henoise in the back of his throat, she reached out to take his hand¡ªoh, no, not there, too His blunt fingers were swollen at the tips, the skin purple, so

She wanted to touch him, but there was no place that she could "Butch?"

His body jerked at the sound of her voice and his eyes opened Well, one of thehost of a smile pulled at his lips "You&039;re back I just¡­ saw you at the door" His voice eak, a tinny echo of the bass it normally was "I saw you then¡­ lost¡­ you But here you are"

She sat gingerly on the edge of the bed and wondered which nurse he thought she was "Butch¡ª"

"Where did¡­ the yellow dress go?" His words were garbled, hismuch, as if his jaere broken "You were so beautiful¡­ in that yellow dress¡­"

Definitely a nurse Those suits hanging next to the door were yello¡ªshoot She hadn&039;t put one on, had she? Holy hell, if his immune system was compromised, she needed to protect hiet a¡ª"

"No¡ªdon&039;t leavein the binds, the leather restraints creaking "Please¡­ dear God¡­ don&039;t leave ht back"

"No¡­ woman I love¡­ yellow dress¡­ don&039;t leavewhat else to do, she leaned down and softly laid her paled his bruised cheek into her touch, his cracked lips brushing her skin as he whispered, "Promise me"

The air lock broke with a hiss and Marissa looked over her shoulder

Havers burst into the rooh the yellow mask he wore, the horror in his stare was as obvious as a scream

"Marissa!" He swayed in the protective suit he had on, his voice in in the Fade, what are you¡ªyou should have a hazle on the bed, and she lightly stroked his forearht here" When he&039;d calht now¡ª"

"You have no idea¡ªoh, God!" Havers&039;s whole body shook "You&039;re compromised now You could be contaminated"

"Contaminated?" She looked down at Butch

"Surely you felt it when you came in!" Havers launched into all kinds of words, none of which she heard

As her brother kept at it, her priorities realigned the into steel It didn&039;t matter that Butch had no idea who she was If the , that was all thatlanced over her shoulder "Well, if I&039; with him, doesn&039;t it"