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Val felt Vince’s approach before she saw him.

Her heart began to pound, but not just from fear. More from the fact that he’d actually made an effort to come talk to her for the third day in a row.

She’d missed his visit yesterday, but when she’d called Sarah-soon-to-be-Petrowski, she’d casually mentioned that Vince had tried to find Val after she’d left the DZ that first day, then again at the hospital yesterday.

That he’d been actively trying to find her caused her heart to speed in ways that ought to be illegal.

His massive presence consumed the hallway and her senses as he moved silently to stand next to where she stood in front of an ICU window. “Why didn’t you tell me?” he said without looking at her.

“What?” Val stared straight ahead, too. His nearness exuded barely chained power. But she didn’t get the idea his persona housed hostility as much as it did passion for whatever he’d come here to say to her.