He Missed the Delivery Room. I Married His Enemy Instead. novel · Chapter 29 of 32
Chapter 29: Saturday Mornings
Nobody at the table breathed.
Conall didn't answer.
He looked at me, over the old man's head, the way he had in the boathouse when I'd said ask me now.
I tied off the fifth stitch and cut it.
"Give it to Mercy," I said.
The old man turned his head slowly.
"Say that again, missus."
"Give the parcel to Mercy." I picked up the needle driver for the sixth. "You're afraid some man from New York buys it and you're all unloading his yachts. Nobody from New York can buy a hospital's land. Nobody can build towers on it. Nobody can bring anything in under the cranes at three in the morning either."
"So we lose it anyway."
"You lose it to the only building in this city every man at this table has been carried into."
I nodded at the big man.
"Left flank."
At the one across from him.
"Broken jaw. Your brother cried in the hall for an hour."
The brother looked at the ceiling.
"Mercy needs a new trauma wing," I said. "That parcel is the only flat land on the water big enough to put one. It needs pilings and steel and concrete and men who know a crane. Union men. Paid on the books, with a pension at the end."
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