Page 14 of Edge of Forever

“Iz?”

Her heart rate spiked and she rolled her head toward him.

“Baby?”

“Mr. King, back up.”

The harried nurse pushed him aside and pushed a needle into her IV bag. Izzy calmed and her face went slack again.

“Doesn’t the doctor want her to wake up?”

As usual the nurse ignored him, made a mark in Izzy’s chart then left again. Logan tipped his head back with a disgusted breath and followed her out the door. She’d be out for hours again. Whatever they juiced her with always took four hours to come around from.

Even if they didn’t let her stay awake, dammit.

Tattoo guard duty had been replaced with a mountain of a man wearing a hideous Hawaiian shirt in teal and white.

“Logan, meet Felix Sanchez.”

Felix nodded. “Sir.”

“What happened to the other guy?”

“That’s Bishop. They rotate out every six hours.”

“Good.”

“How is she?”

Logan sighed. “I don’t know, man. They keep pumping her full of drugs.”

“Probably because of the burns. One of the guys on my team got third degree burns out in the field—it was awful. No other pain like it. They had him sedated for the first few days while he started healing.”

Logan’s stomach lurched. “Then no, I don’t want her awake for it.”

“I talked to the WFPD and their initial findings were faulty wiring.”

“It wasn’t.”

“Hang on.” Marcus held up a hand. “They agreed to bring in the state Fire Marshall. Especially since there were casualties. I’ve got my people digging into her financials to see if there’s a money trail. So far, nothing.”

Frustration climbed up into his shoulders and neck, tightening already abused muscles. “Do you have eyes on her at least?”

“She’s making it easy to do that. If I see one more selfie with her and that dumb as a brick hockey player, I’m going to shoot her myself.”

“Go ahead. Save me the trouble.”

Marcus’s eyes sharpened. “That is not an option, Logan.”

Logan crossed his arms, but said nothing.

“Do not make this a revenge thing. We don’t have the proof and you will go to jail. Somehow I don’t think your pampered rockstar ass would do well there.”

Logan’s nostrils flared and he clenched his jaw.

“Seethe all you want. You hired me to do things right. Roth Defense may skirt some laws to get things done, but we aren’t mercenaries. Ever.”

“If something else happens to Isabella, there is no place on this earth that Aimee Collen can hide. I will find her and I will kill her.”

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