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The hallway exploded.

“Connor!” I gasped.

“Connor!” his mother cried out.

“Mr. Templeton, get back in bed!” Dr. Sarpara ordered.

Somewhere down the hall, somebody yelled into a phone, “Security!”

“Come on, man, don’t,” Johnny pleaded, and tried to gingerly push him back into the room –

But Connor stood his ground. He gripped the door with one hand to steady himself, and with the other hand pointed at his family like some sort of specter of death.

“…get… these fucking people… OUT of here.”

“Even now?!” his mother howled. “Even now, you attack us – ”

“After you tried to ruin me?!” he yelled, his face wracked with pain from his broken ribs. “After you tried to destroy the woman I love?!”

My heart swelled with so much emotion when he said that, I almost burst out crying.

“You don’t love her,” Lenora Templeton scoffed, her voice filled with acid.

“After you tried to have both of us killed?!” Connor shouted.

“What?! Don’t listen to her!” Lenora screamed as she pointed at me. “Why are you
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