CHAPTER SEVENTY

CHAPTER SEVENTYDom made it through the surgery with flying colors and was showing signs of improvement. His brain was swelling less and his body was healing.Leo came into the room holding a tablet, his expression unreadable. He gestured for Cassie to follow him into the hallway."I have information," he said quietly. "About the accident."Cassie's heart rate picked up. "And?""The vehicle that hit you was a black SUV, registered to a shell company out of New Jersey but from the look of things, the company doesn't exactly exist. It's just a front. The investigator traced the financial transactions and found a burner phone was used to hire a driver for exactly twenty-four hours on the day of the accident.""Hire him to do what?" Cassie asked, though she already knew the answer."Hit your car. The investigator enhanced the highway footage and the impact trajectory shows it was aimed specifically at the passengers side. What made it look like a hit and run was the fact that after the hi

CHAPTER SEVENTY ONE

CHAPTER SEVENTY ONEShe sat there for hours, just holding his hand and downloading everything that had happened while he was out. She told him how her mother came to the hospital and her father showed up, destroying the small calm they had built with his anger and selfishness."There's something else," she said finally, because he deserved to know. "The car that hit us, it wasn't random. Someone did it deliberately. They wanted to..." She couldn't finish the sentence.But she could see in Dom's eyes that he understood. The fury that flashed across his face was so intense that for a moment he looked like a predator, dangerous and cold. He tried to move and gasped with pain, and Cassie immediately put her hand on his chest to keep him still."Don't. Please don't try to move. You're going to hurt yourself."But she could feel the tension in his body, the rage underneath the surface, the fact that he wanted to get out of this bed and find whoever had done this and destroy them. Now, even

CHAPTER SEVENTY TWO

CHAPTER SEVENTY TWOPhysical therapy finally started. The therapist's name was David and he was professional and methodical and had no patience for Dom's attempts to push past what his body could do."You're going to damage the healing nerves," David said firmly when Dom tried to move his leg through a full range of motion during their first session. "We take this slow and steady. That's how recovery works.""I don't have time to take anything slow," Dom said. His jaw was tight, his hands gripping the bed rails."You have whatever time your body needs," David replied. "We're looking at four months minimum for you to walk without assistance. That's being conservative. You might need longer."Dom's expression didn't change, but Cassie felt something shift in the air around him."I'll do it in two months," he said quietly."That's not realistic…”"Two months," Dom repeated, cutting him off. "I'll push harder. I'll do the work but I'm not spending four months in this hospital."David loo

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