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“No, just wait a second.” He got up and she flinched.
Poor lady. Christ.
“Charlie?” he answered the phone when he was in the other room. “What’s going on?”
He’d insisted the other man take his number when they’d met last week.
There was yelling in the background, and someone was calling for an ambulance.
Suddenly, he just knew.
“Reuben! It’s Faith!” Charlie cried, his voice filled with fear and panic.
“What’s happened?” he snapped as he ran through the office to the elevator. “What’s happened to Faith?”
“She’s been hit by a car! At the crossing outside your building. Reuben, hurry!”
Fear unlike anything he’d ever felt in his life filled him, making the world go blurry around him as he rushed out of the elevator and through the ground floor of the building.
Nothing could happen to Faith.
Because if it did . . . he knew he wouldn’t survive.
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Reuben watched her breathe.
It was becoming an obsession.
In. Out. In. Out.
He had two fingers on her pulse, even though there were monitors keeping track of her oxygen levels and pulse.
But he had this awful feeling that if he left her side, she wouldn’t wake up. That she wouldn’t survive.
He knew it was stupid. That she was doing well. She’d woken up once, but she was heavily medicated and had been disorientated.
However, he couldn’t stop watching her.
He’d gotten to her as quickly as he could. But he should never have let her out of his sight in the first place.
Next time, he’d reschedule his meeting. No matter who it was.
Fuck. Mrs. Merryweather.
Getting out his phone, he sent her a quick message but didn’t get a reply.
“Reuben?”
He jumped to his feet, instinctively moving to cover her from the threat. No one would harm her.
Never again.
“Hey. It’s me. Alejandro. I wouldn’t harm Faith. You know that.”
Alejandro.
He was safe.
