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.

held up her phone. “Someone caught

cathedral steps. Snow piling on his Brunello coat as he knelt there, still as

kind of love makes a man kneel in a

that man loves you? It’s what we all

turned toward the

I let my eyes

this was a man undone. His usually sharp eyes

dream, fingers trembling as they traced my

Baby, you’re

cracked, eyes

watched him,

knees beside the bed. “We’ll get through this, angel. Everything

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meant

was conscious, I was still bedridden.

bathe me. Managing

Holding

merger.

night, he’d hold me like I might shatter, his whispers soft against

should have protected you better. No more late meetings. I’ll come straight home to

through my head outside that ICU… No, I can’t tell you. You’re too tenderhearted – it

Promise you’ll never leave me.”

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