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Prologue

Cash

Pulling off lasses, I walked into the empty elevator and pressed the button for the third floor It was late, well past visiting hours, so the halls were eerily quiet as I stepped offin a way they never did before I took the stage with , and ht of seeing one tiny wo my heart pound so hard my stomach was unsettled

The halls were intricate, so I stopped in front of a nurses’ station for directions An older woreen scrubs with her hair pulled back into a severe bun lifted her head from the charts she had in front of her when she heardhours are over,” she clipped out

“Yes,her the sns over the years This suys out of some pretty deep shit over the years It worked on everyone, with the exception of Eh my bullshit, and every time she saw that smile, she put randmother was adht as soon as I could But there was bad weather out west, and ht here fro, her eyes full of sy in for the kill “I would have waited until toht or I’ll get fired”

It was all bullshit, but she didn’t need to know that Even as popular as Tainted Knights ith our latest single already sitting in the top ten on all the charts, I doubted this wo our noses clean, staying out of the spotlight, unlike so musicians lately After the hell E up in the tabloids a while back, ere all a little scared of the hot redhead

“Who’s your grand it over

“Doris Mathias,” I supplied

Eyes rounding, she looked at one of the screens in front of her and struck a few keys “She’s in 310, straight down this hall, take the left, and it’s the third door on the left Don’t overtire her, though, and ”

I turned up the wattage of my smile “Thank you, ma’am”

Room 310 was a private roo a roo to happen She would have demanded to be taken to another hospital, no matter how sick she was