Chapter 221

The fluorescent lights in the private Florence hospital wing buzzed like angry hornets.

Declan Hayes lay in the narrow bed, shoulder wrapped in thick white bandages that were already seeping red again. The doctors had said the bullet had missed the artery by millimeters. A miracle, they called it. Declan called it unfinished business. He had woken up in recovery with one thought only: Siena.

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