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In the dark, it’s impossible to make out her expression, but the thrill in her deep, leisured breaths is audible as she wipes the blade of her knife on her hip before flicking it closed.
“Look at her.” Mary spits down at the ground with disgust, nudging the body with her foot. “Cathy Eddowes…the late Duke, your father, liked her. Hours he’d lock himself away with her. He’d fuck her. Bruise her. Cut her. And she thought she ruled the roost.”
“What do you want, Mary?” I take another step closer, and she sidesteps over the corpse on the ground. “Are you scared I’m going to gut you like the others?”
A low cackle vibrates her entire body as we continue circling. “Scared? Me? No, Your Grace, but you should be.”
“I’m not.”
“You should be,” she snaps back. Her eyes flicker down to my pocket, where I’m holding the gun. “Go on, shoot me.”
There’s a trill to her voice that tells me it’s the worst thing I could do, but before her words have faded to silence, a shot cracks around us. Mary stumbles forward as the Fiesta reverses into view.
“Get in,” Ryan barks. “We have to go now!”
“You’re too late. She’s going to die,” Mary laughs. “You’re going to watch her bleed.”
It’s at that precise moment that my heart falls to my feet. The violent twist of my stomach wrenches through me.
Eve.
Panic and rage tornado inside me as I grip Mary’s hair harshly and hoist her in the air, holding her face to my face.
“I’m going to watch you die.”
“Not before she does.” There’s a bite of pain to the laughter that follows her words as I smash her head to the roof of the car, again and again until she falls limp, and I throw her in the back.
“We need to get back to the club,” I growl at Ryan at the same time as he tells me, “Eve’s been taken to hospital. They think she’s been poisoned.”
No. That’s not possible. “Your brother checked her over.”
“He stitched her arm up,” he bites at me. “He wasn’t to know there was something more.”
“I want Richard Warren brought to me.” I want to kill the cunt. Cut him limb from limb as he watches me bleed his bitch dry. Or maybe I’ll bleed him and gut her. The possibilities are endless.
The possibilities. I choke. The possibility that Eve is dying freezes me to the core. I can’t breathe as Ryan races through the city. The streets flash by in a blur of shadows and lights with the garbled roar of my pulse.
I almost lost her, and I only just got her back. “I can’t lose her again.”
“You won’t.” Ryan swerves into the underground car park of St. Anne’s hospital.
The registration of the car on their system means they cut the usual security checks of the Secret Service hospital. My ears are ringing as I get out of the car, leaving Ryan to deal with the whore in the back.
Percival is waiting at the glass doors. He immediately starts walking me through the long corridor.
“Where is she?” I ask.
“They have her in intensive care. The blood tests have come back with high levels of Warfarin in her system.”
“Warfarin?”
“It’s an anticoagulant. Too much causes internal bleeding.”
The morose expression on his face claws at me. The world around me is tilting. It keeps spinning and spinning, and I’m so fucking dizzy that I can’t see straight as he guides me into the lift.
“The doctors believe the Desmopressin slowed down the Warfarin poisoning. With the sedatives, she wouldn’t have been able to feel it set in.” Percival comes to stand in front of me. “They’re doing everything they can to save her, Henry.”
I nod, incapable of doing anything else. All the words are balling in my throat.
