Bitter Medicine

Valerie’s POV

“I’ll take you home,” Bryce said, his arms till protectively around my waist.

“No,” I said.

His enforcers had already made Darius’s men leave the property. The danger had passed.

“I really want to go to work,” I said.

Bryce looked at me with something between wonder and awe. “You aren’t frightened?”

I was, but that wouldn’t change whether I was at his estate or here at the hospital.