His name could flash on my screen all it liked.

It had become just a name — a word that used to mean something and now meant a call I did not have to take.

I set the phone face-down, and the small click of it against the tray table was the quietest and most complete sentence I have ever spoken to anyone.

Chapter 14 — The VIP Wing

Four days after I gave the order, Flynn came for me in person.

He came through the doors of the hospital’s private pediatric wing flanked by two frantic corporate attorneys, and he was not the man who had signed those papers so coolly a week before.