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“No, they’ve been sent to the waiting room. They can come and see you when your tests are done and we have a room here in the ER for you.”

Jenny’s heart lurched. She didn’t want to have to be in a hospital alone again. It had been horrible being separated from Brax when she first came to America.

“Are you sure that I’ll see Brax after the tests?”

“Is he your boyfriend?”

Jenny nodded. Hoping that would mean more, so they would let him in sooner. Or maybe she was just saying that because it was something to make her feel better, to take away the pain.

“Now tell me what the fuck happened.”

“I was waving to Jenny, and the next thing I saw was her lurching forward into this car. It made no sense. She wasn’t walking into it like she wasn’t paying attention to traffic or something. She was shoved.”

Brax watched and listened as Jada recounted what had happened. There wasn’t any way that he didn’t believe what she was saying. He knew the woman. She lived for details. If Jada said that Jenny had been shoved, then Jenny had been shoved. But why in the hell would anyone want to shove Jenny into the oncoming traffic?

“I had to ask,” Brax started.

“I know you don’t want to believe it,” Jada said. “I didn’t want to, either. But there isn’t a doubt in my mind that she was pushed. The problem is, it happened so fast, and there were too many people behind her, that I didn’t see who did it.”

They moved out of the way as a woman with a sobbing child tried to get past them. “Let’s go outside,” Brax suggested. The amount of coughing and sneezing people in the waiting room was getting on his nerves. He knew that they were good for at least a half hour before they would be called back to see Jenny.

As soon as they were outside, Jada started talking. “I called Gideon after I called you. He said he had to finish something up with Kostya, then he would be here.”

Brax nodded. He appreciated the fresh air. He could finally breathe. Ever since Jada’s call, he’d been out of his mind with worry. Even though Jada had said that Jenny wasn’t badly injured, he had to see for himself.

“Can you think of any reason that someone would target Jenny? Or is this some rando?” Jada asked.

“The only people after Jenny have been reporters, but they wouldn’t be pushing her, they would be stopping her to get a story.”

“What about her old company? Gideon told me she had a case against them. Has she hired an attorney?”

Brax shook his head. Jenny didn’t want to get into something like that. She was just beginning to recover from the kidnapping, let alone dealing with any kind of restitution from New Era Cyber Tech.

“Why not?” Jada asked. Brax could see the bloodlust in her eye, and he gave a weak laugh. “Seriously, Brax. Why not? Those assholes hung her out to dry. She should be all over that. I know I would be.”

“You would be what?” Gideon said as he stepped up behind his fiancée.

“I would be suing the hell out of Jenny’s company if they had known what a risk it was to stay in Bangladesh and then didn’t pay the ransom. I would be milking them for all they were worth.”

Gideon slid his arm around Jada and she leaned into him. “I know you would. I don’t think Jenny is up for that quite yet.” He looked over at Brax. “How’s she doing?”

“They were sending her up to radiology when they kicked us out of the ER. Supposedly they’ll let us know when she’s been given a room in the ER.”

“Not with that mess.” Jada nodded toward the room inside. “We’re going to have to be bothering the coordinators every five minutes for updates.”

“Let’s offer to buy them coffee and make it every ten minutes. How about that?” Gideon suggested.

“I like every five minutes,” Brax said as he headed back into the waiting room.

“I’m her fiancé,” he lied to the nurse. “She’ll want me in her room.”

“The doctor is waiting to get her admitted. Your fiancée hit her head. We didn’t see any significant brain swelling, but we want to keep her for twenty-four to forty-eight hours for observation. She also reinjured her ribs, so whatever gains she might have made when it comes to pain management, have been set back.”

Fuck.

“She said she is staying at a hotel?” The doctor gave him a curious glance.

“She was,” he nodded. “Now she’s staying with me. I’ll be able to take care of her. When I’m at work, my sister will be able to look in on her.”