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from the neonatal

came final. When the chaos erupted,

own the corridor as doctors s

screaming in hysterics: "My

nurses' station, pulled up the electronic feeding log,

act volume and timing of every formula feed

one of them shouted back, frantic -

rd "formula," and her f

trembling finger ai

corridor. "She poisoned the bottle! She wants to ki

boomed across th

rough the double doors, a

re bloodsho

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straight

e an iron vise, hard enough to crush bone,

e roared, loud enough

was walking into a lion's den, so I had used the last of my private money - what remained of my own earnings from before t

oom is in my hands," I said, perfectly calm. "So

idn't even glanc

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ped on the po

slamming into the metal fire-extin

esh and bone hitting stee

gh my shirt, ripping open the old

nd dripping from my elbow, splattering a sh

at that pool of bl

and at the mass of thick-necked enforcers flooding the co

eathe on his own, she doesn't t

back, striding into the trauma

ssing my hand hard against the bleeding

ing hour

om opened, and the attending physician em

s a common newborn condition - secretions blocking the airway. It had no

gid by the door, ab

s head and looked at

the first time, a flicker of genu

se behind, caught that f

- and pressed her entire hand down on my

You'll always be the villain." She hissed t

nd my teeth against the sear

e the guards were distracted, slipped soun

e and called the fam

ecords," I ordered, my voice cold to the bone. "And file the claw-back suit

g up, the phone

t up the screen,

bulletproof car will pick yo

r of my own blood from the scr

y goodbye t