Elyse had never heard him use that rhythmic, soothing tone of voice before, but she felt the power behind his words. The woman’s fingers slowed on the keyboard, and her blush faded as she lifted her gaze to him. The blank look in the woman’s eyes made Elyse’s skin crawl as she recalled those zombie-like people standing on the porch of the bar.
Despite her impulse to shrink away from the desk, she found herself riveted to Saxon’s words and the woman’s reaction to them.
“You don’t have to put her in the computer, do you?” he asked.
“No,” the woman replied.
“And you don’t require all her information.”
“I don’t.”
“Now, please go on back there and find a doctor who can take care of her. Also, find someone who can shut down the cameras and bring that person to me.”
The woman rose in a fluid motion. Elyse watched her walk through a door and into the back. “That’s so creepy,” she murmured.
“But it works,” Saxon said as his fingers ran across her hip.
Chapter Thirty
She never would have believedit possible, but with Saxon working his creepy magic, she found herself heading to X-rays less than five minutes later. The security guard Saxon had spoken with walked ahead of them in the hallway. He was going to shut the cameras down for a little while.
Saxon stayed by her side while they took X-rays of her arm before leading her to a room and settling her onto a hospital bed where the nurse took her vitals. When she was ten, she broke her foot rollerblading and had to go to the ER for X-rays, so she knew it was all going backward and far faster than usual.
“Your blood pressure is a little high,” the nurse told her.
“Ms. White,” a doctor in a white lab coat greeted as he breezed into the room. Saxon had given them a fake name to use. The doctor already had her X-rays in hand, and he placed them into whatever the thing was they used to show the results to the patients. He flicked a switch, and a light lit up to reveal her X-rays. “As I’m sure you can see, it’s a bad break.”
He pointed to where both bones in her arms were in pieces. Around those two broken parts, smaller pieces of her bones had also broken off and were floating around. Elyse’s stomach turned over as she stared at the X-ray;no oneshould see their bones doing that.
The doctor glanced at Saxon before focusing on her again. “How did it happen?”
Though the sight of it made her ill, she couldn’t take her eyes off the X-ray. “I fell.”
The doctor smiled at her. “I have some questions to ask you.”
“Sure,” she muttered.
“Some of them are rather personal; I think you’d prefer to answer them alone.”
“Oh, ah….” She glanced at Saxon.
He rested his hand on her shoulder and bent to kiss her head. “I’ll be in the hall.”
When he walked out of the room, a strange sense of loss filled her as the nurse closed the door behind him.
“Do you feel safe?” the doctor asked.
She’d been expecting questions about her medical history and period, so he completely threw her off with this one. “Excuse me?”
He glanced at the closed door. “Do you feel safe at home?”
Elyse almost asked himwhathome, but she bit back the words when she saw he was dead serious. “Yes.”
The doctor and nurse both stared at her until she squirmed on the bed.
“We can get you help if you need it, but you have to tell us if you feel threatened,” the doctor said.
He’d run from here if he learned how threatened she’d been for months, but she decided it was probably bestnotto reveal that. “Saxon would never hurt me.”
