Chapter 193: Temptation
Elias looked at the tie in Yvonne's hand and, in the space of a breath, imagined more than a dozen uses for it.
Some were obvious. Some were more interesting.
What interested him most was not the tie itself, though. It was the fact that it rested in Yvonne Quinn's hands.
Those hands had saved lives, opened bodies, stitched tissue, repaired damage that other doctors could only stare at and call impossible. People called them Miracle Hands because they wanted to believe precision that clean had to be blessed by something. Elias knew better. A miracle was only another word for skill when the person watching did not understand the cost.
So what would those hands do with a tie?
What kind of method would a woman like Yvonne choose when the object in her grip was no longer sterile, no longer medical, and no longer pretending to be harmless?
Elias stepped back.
His spine met the wall of the stall with a soft thud.
There was nowhere else to go.
