Chapter 21

Chapter 21

vespera slowly regained consciousness.

Taning her head to the side, she saw Dominic sitting by the bedside.

His shirt was wrinkled, and his

sleeves were rolled up. Three buttons at the collar were undone, giving him a casual appearance. It looked as though he had just run a marathon in

"Mr. Reid," she croaked, her throat hearse, her voice heavy with nasal congestion

"Do you remember what happened earlier?" Dominic asked her.

"I remember," Vespera replied with a faint, bitter smile.

Although she was disoriented, she wasn't completely unconscious from the moment she was attacked until he saved her.

"Thank you! Thank you so much!" she said sincerely.

Without his help, she probably wouldn't have made it out alive.

Dominic stared at her for a moment, his eyes dark and unreadable. One good news and one bad

one would you

the drug needle didn't go into you. The one in the hallway was

fine. As

a moment. "This whole incident was orchestrated by

lowered as she clenched

what happened and how you ended up there. I've detained those people for you. If you want

you sure you don't

huge debt. I can't owe more, I

softly, unable

that moment, the phone on the table rang. It

it up for

screen. It was her father calling, it was almost 1:00 am, and Vernon

they

she answered the

"Vera, where are you?"""

at a club

not corning home? Your mom won't sleep. She's

back"

up the phone, Vespera fell a wow

about what her parents would have gone through if something had happed to her tonight, how much pain they

to Dominae and asked, "Can you

paused for a few seconds before replying, "You're going to go home

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