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Ronan shook his head immediately. “That implicates you if anything goes wrong.” He frowned slightly. “I think we need to move her back into the main part of the clinic. Although when the nurse wakes up, she’s going to get a hell of a fright to find a new patient.”

“We could drop her off at a hospital entrance,” Paddy suggested.

“We can’t traumatize her any further than she’s going to be,” Michaela said.

Ronan nodded. “Unfortunately, either way, she’ll be traumatized, whether she wakes up here, at your clinic, or at a different hospital, plus she won’t have anyone to really care for her.”

“I will care for her,” Michaela said

“I won’t have you put at risk, Michaela,” Ronan said firmly. “No, I’m going to take her home with me.”

All of them gaped at Ronan.

“With you?” Paddy said. “To your house?”

“Yes, it’s the only solution,” Ronan replied.

Harvey wasn’t so sure that was the only solution, but Ronan seemed to have made up his mind, and he wasn’t going to argue with him. Right now, what he wanted to know was what the doctor was doing with the recordings he’d made of Lily.

“Paddy, get into the computer system and download everything that you can,” Ronan ordered as he glanced at his watch. “We’re going to have to take this girl out of here under the cover of darkness, so it’ll need to be soon. Michaela, do you think she’s going to stay asleep a bit longer?”

“She looks like she’s still in a deep sleep,” Michaela said. “I don’t want to give her anything extra. I’ll need to run some blood tests. I think it’s best that I come with you and watch over her.”

Ronan nodded. “Right, I’m going to make arrangements to move her. Paddy, you get started on security. And Harvey, don’t do anything stupid.”

Harvey barely acknowledged him as they all started to move around him. Instead, he moved to the empty room and sat on the bed for a long moment, staring at the cameras before he lay down.

This is what Lily had experienced, what she’d lived through. It didn’t matter that she couldn’t remember it.

Although that had turned out to be quite the blessing, considering what must have gone on in here.

What the hell was he going to do? How was he going to tell her about what had happened? He couldn’t do it until he had all the answers, and even then, he just didn’t know what to tell her.

He was devastated.

A few hours later, he found himself back home.

But he couldn’t go up upstairs and crawl into bed beside her.

Not yet.

Paddy was going to go through all of the information he had, but it would take him a while. Until then, Ronan had told him to go home to check on Lily. To try and act normal until they knew the full story.

Everything had been cleaned up at the doctor’s house. They’d left his body for someone to discover and they’d also installed some cameras at the clinic to keep watch over the other two nurses employed by the doctor, the receptionist and security guard.

If they went into the private area, then they’d know they were part of it. Ronan wanted to see if anyone else went into that area.

Once Paddy had gone through everything, they’d leak some information to the cops and remove the cameras before they could be found.

Instead of going upstairs, he moved into his office and sat on the chair. He just stared at the computer screen, unsure of what to do. It felt like he should be doing something. Instead, he was just sitting here, aimless.

Should he tell her that they found the doctor? Should he tell her about her mother?

The other woman had seemed to have gone completely cuckoo. She was being held in the basement of Ronan’s house. Michaela had to give her something to calm her down.

All of her screeching and crying had been doing everyone’s head in.

He hated this. He didn’t want to lie to Lily, but at the same time, he should probably wait till he had more information. Maybe the doctor had just been filming her for his own entertainment. But he had a feeling the money the doctor was using to run the clinic had come from a different sort of revenue stream.