Mack answered the front door swiftly before the banging woke Lucy up. She'd been sleeping fitfully for over an hour since they got back to his place.

He was in the process of letting Sitnikov's doctor in the door when he heard a muffled scream from the bedroom. He didn't think twice. He left the old man standing in the doorway and hurtled down the hallway toward Lucy. He didn't give two shits what the man thought, he wasn't going to leave his woman alone when she needed him, ...