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

would you like

is you weren't assaulted, and the drug needle didn't go into you. The one in the hallway was just

fine. As for the bad

"This whole

lowered as she clenched her hands tightly

you. If you want

you

owe you a huge debt. I can't owe more, I wouldn't be able

unable to say

the table rang. It

it

am, and Vernon and Wanda must have been worried since she hadn't come home

an adult, they

throat, she

"Vera, where are you?"""

at a club

mom won't

back"

up the phone, Vespera fell a wow of

gone through if something had happed to her tonight,

asked, "Can you take me

before replying, "You're going to go home looking like this? Aren't you worried

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