Chapter 48 - Willow

I clenched my eyes shut and sucked in huge gasps of air as beautiful pain assaulted my body. Overwhelmed my mind. Brought me back into myself. Somehow, I'd forgotten Ethan had cut me open and shoved an electrode inside my thigh. I hissed out a breath as the last forty-eight hours flashed through my mind in bits and pieces.

"Cupcake?" Ryker called.

I opened my eyes, looking up into his bright green gaze. "Yeah?"

His face was mere inches from my own. "Kiss me like that again and I won't care who is around or where we are, I'll finish it." His steady gaze and quirked lips turned the pain washing through my system into a deeper, darker prelude.

I smiled. "Oh yeah?"

The door to my private room slid open. The familiar low squeak of soles on cold floors reached my ears.

I felt the breath back up in my lungs. No. No. No. He can't be here. I can't be here.

My heart seized inside my chest until I got a good look at the body inside the dark blue scrubs. Ethan had never had br