Lethal Vows：Married to My Rival novel · Chapter 15 of 24

Chapter 15: Half a Cure

The first vial went into his arm at four in the morning.

The doctor hung it from the curtain rod over Valentin's bed on a hook made from a coat hanger.

Ran the line into the crook of his elbow with hands that finally stopped shaking.

"It will hurt in an hour," he said. "The metal comes out of the nerves slowly, and the nerves complain."

"And six doses?" I said.

"Stops the damage. Doesn't undo it. He needs all twelve to get the heart back."

"Then he'll get all twelve."

The doctor didn't answer that.

Doyle locked him in the room across the hall, took a chair outside the door.

Shut his own eyes with his gun in his lap.

I sat down on the edge of the bed.

Valentin lay propped against the pillows, shirtless, with gray under his eyes and the tube taped to his arm.

The fire had burned low. His breathing was slow and rough.

"You should sleep," he said.

"You should shut up."

His mouth moved. "You went into the Pit for me."

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