to Dedric's wheelchair so his voice wou

sing severe neuro-cardiac degeneration without open-che

w, his tone laced with mockery. "Sound

n-stimulation therapy combined with experimental neuro-peptides-they've pulled three termin

ontracted slightly-the exact method the girl with t

nely that capable, securing them wouldn't just save Colvin-it would give Dedric the perfect medi

gh encrypted dark-web servers, and their starting cons

an issue," De

r Julian Hayes right here at Manhattan General has privatel

om the ER doctor had just praised twenty

ications immediately. Follow his tr

trace through the server networks. Ten minutes later, inside the tech center of Apex Century's headquarters, the le

cked our trace, bounced it across twelve international proxy

garbled Russian code on his tablet, his face dark enough to drip ink as

who has ever mocked Dedric

hacking skills or hide in the digital gutter like a rat. This "Surgeon" was clearly

ic ordered, snapping the lighter shut. "Five millio

sedan, completely unaware that she had just been labeled a wanted fraudster by her prospective

d flooded the top of her screen, offering ten million dol

ile? Big spender," Casandra m

e her local IP address. Her slender fingers danced across the virtual keyboard in a blur, deploying three cascading ju

remembering she still had a spare backup vial of Neuro-Pept

regular smartphone rang with a call from her bes

ner and Black patriarchs signed decades ago and pushed you into the Black family alliance instead! He'd been saving Glenora for that marriage all along, but after last night'

paused on the

lack f

for eight years, his temper is psychotic, and his last three

d-shouldered man with explosive leg strength who had pinned her against the stall do

ed? Psy

weak-he was hiding his claws deep, and the Black family's private archives happened to hold the exact t

d, her dark eyes glinting in the dim garage light. "Before I deal