Chapter 8

I came to in a private suite at NewYork–Presbyterian.

Lucy’s scream could’ve woken the whole floor before she practically dove at me, sobbing.

“Oh my God. Emma! You’re back!”

“You’ve been out for eighteen days do you have any idea how scared we were?”

“Nathan was literally dying without you!”

“Nathan…” His name came out as barely a whisper.

“He’s here, sweetie. The doctors finally made him get some sleep. God, Emma, you have no idea what this has done

to him.”

While a team of specialists checked my vitals, Lucy filled me in:

Three days in intensive care. Nathan hadn’t left the hospital for those three days. No food. No sleep. Just… waiting.

When they finally moved me out of the ICU, he just collapsed. Right there in the hallway, like his strings had been

CUL

For the next two weeks, he barely left my side, this ghost of Manhattan’s most powerful CEO.

only time he left? Lucy held up her phone. “Someone caught this at

on his

kind of love makes a man kneel in a

Emma. The way that man loves you? It’s

toward the window.

I let my

Gone was the polished CEO – this was a man undone. His usually sharp

in a dream, fingers trembling as

you’re really awake?”

cracked,

just watched him, silent,

get through this, angel. Everything will heal.

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meant

I was still bedridden.

water to my lips. Helping the nurses bathe me. Managing my medication schedule like it was a Fortune

Holding

merger.

I might shatter,

better. No more late meetings. I’ll come straight home to

No, I can’t tell you. You’re too tenderhearted – it would

Promise you’ll never leave me.”

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