Page 290 of John + Siena: The Complete Duet

“Could we get started?” Siena asked.

The doctor cleared his throat, and nodded once. “Yes, sure, of course. Once you sign the documents, and witness us turn off the machines, and remove the tube, you will not need to remain in the—”

“I will stay.”

The man gave her a look. “Many don’t prefer to stay and watch, and it can take a while.”

Siena stared back, unaffected. “I will stay.”

Until the bastard’s heart stopped beating.

Until he couldn’t hurt them again.

Until she was safe.

Her sisters.

John.

Siena would fucking stay.

“Okay,” the doctor murmured. “Let’s get started on these final forms.”

The next several minutes were a blur. Siena checking boxes, and signing her signature on too many dotted lines to count. It was all the same thing over and over again, simply reworded a different way, and on a new page.

Did she understand …

Does she agree …

No liability …

“And here,” the doctor said one final time.

Siena scribbled her name a little harder than before.

Done and done.

She stepped back, and found a chair in the corner of the room to make herself comfortable for the next little while. For all the machines and wires hooked up to Darren, it took only a couple of quick minutes to remove them from his body.

“Would you leave that one on?” Siena asked.

The doctor hesitated as his hand hovered over the monitor. “You want me to leave the heart rate monitor on?”

She needed to know.

She had to.

“Yes, if it’s possible.”

The nurse and doctor shared a look before the man nodded once at her. “Yes, I can leave it on. It might be upsetting, however, and—”

“I can assure you it won’t be.”

And it wasn’t.

When his heart stopped …

When it was still …