The sound of the door opening was so quiet that at first Jared thought he was imagining it. Then he turned away from the window when he saw light spill in from the bright hallway into the dim room as the doctor step in.

It was the same surgeon that had come to give them the procedure routines before they took Hayden to the surgical ward. He still in scrubs, cap hanging loose around his neck, eyes lined with exhaustion.

Beck who Jared had thought had been sleeping, jumped to his feet in an ...