Chapter 1239:

The search results appeared quickly.

NE Research Institute—Zupren’s premier pharmaceutical research facility. Or rather, it had been. The institute had shut down 17 years ago after a reported leak of some kind. Seventeen years ago?

The same year the Hudson family had plunged into turmoil.

Sadie’s chest tightened as the pieces began to stir.

Her mother’s mysterious work, the research institute, and the sudden downfall of the Hudsons…

It couldn’t be coincidence. But Noah came first. Everything else—answers, suspicions, the past—would have to wait.

She steadied herself, gently laid the tablet aside, and took a deep breath to smooth over the cracks in her composure.

Then she stepped into the hospital room.

already fast asleep, his breathing calm and even, his face

by the doorway, watching him quietly. Only after a long moment did she turn and slip out, closing the

Morning came swiftly.

Hurst finally arrived—disheveled, yawning, with shadows beneath his

knitted together the moment she saw

to

warning from the day before echoed in her mind,

look she gave him, stretched lazily,

worry,” he said with a crooked grin, his voice laced with

self-assurance and roguishness that felt out of place

Sadie had

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burying her doubts beneath a brittle calm, and met his gaze

from Hurst’s face. For once, he didn’t offer

nod, then turned toward the operating room. The heavy door swung shut behind him with a

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