He Broke the Heart That Saved Him novel · Chapter 16 of 24
Chapter 16: Seven Letters
Dane stood up so fast the chair skidded back into the wall.
"She read the name," he said. "She read it, and she put it in her purse."
"Dane."
"Where is she?"
"I don't know."
"I do."
He was out the door before I could stand.
I ran after him down the sixth floor hall, past a nurse with a cart who flattened herself against the wall.
He took the stairwell, not the elevator.
I think he needed to hit something with his feet.
Ingrid was on the landing below, one hand on the rail, the other holding the check I had folded into her pocket.
She had stopped to read it again.
Two nurses in blue scrubs stood a few steps above her, on their break, with their coffees.
"Dane," she said. "I was only waiting for the elevator."
"Seven letters."
She stopped.
"I beg your pardon?"
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