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His eyes narrowed, as if he thought I was only trying to start trouble, and my smile turned sweeter

Oh, honey You haven’t seen trouble yet

“Ma’am—”

“She put her hands on me and tried to physically pull me out of this room Now, I don’t work in the medical field, but I’ trouble As you can see, she’s considerably larger than ood thirty pounds on ht, and she wasn’t fat by anyone’s definition, but she’d pissed me off “I don’t think I’m much of a threat to her”

“Ma’aive you to the count of five before I pulla disturbance on the ICU floor I don’t want to have to drag you out of here by force, but I will if you don’t start listening”

“Yeah, no, that isn’t happening I want to speak to Tanner’s doctor and the ad outside this roorabbed ain

“Jos,” he whispered brokenly

I took his hand, but I kept my eyes on the three people in front of , scary ht now All I have to do is scream, and they will all beat down those metal doors out there Givemy head closer “I dare you”

He looked skeptical, but the dark-haired officer moved forward as if to intercept his partner’s next step in aze and nodded “Smart man”

Shifting closer to Tanner’s bed so I could hold his hand easier, I turned aze back to the nurse “Doctor Adet me what I want”

Chapter 6

Tanner

Jos’s hand was in mine, but her body was turned away fronize stood before her, and fro off all four of the to take her away from me

The skinny blond guy shifted toward her threateningly, and every instinct inside of me screamed to protect as mine Every movement felt like it would be the one that finally ended ht up in bed and pulled Jos down acrossthe top half ofher back with my busted-up arm that was in a splint

The woman shouted in surprise and rushed forward, but I liftedher in her tracks “Get…the…fuck…back!” I panted out, already seeing spots