Prologue

“This isn’t a good idea, you know,” she said voicing her concerns.

Situated in front of her was a hospital bed with an unsuspecting guest laid on top.

The room was filled to the brim with lights bright enough to daze a poor fellow.

“You’re probably right, but I made a promise, and I intend to keep it,” the man said.

“Sure, I get that, but you could’ve at least brought her to a proper hospital. You’ve legit broke protocol in every logical sense.”

“Well, that’s your first mistake ― Logic and rules don’t exist in my dictionary. Besides, this room has better equipment anyway.”

He proclaimed while jabbing in I.V. bags and needles in the unconscious arm. Yet, it didn’t look like your typical medical procedure.

“To be honest, I don’t think you even have ten words listed in that book of yours,” she responded.

“But that’s besides the point, the real concern here is her. How can you be so trustworthy of her? For all we know she could be some spy.”

“Well, that’s simple ― I trusted him. So, I might as well trust his niece also.”

The women looked at him with mixed eyes of distraught, bewilderedness, and concern.

“...You can’t be serious, her ‘uncle’ was literally disavowed. I mean you could even argue that he was traitor.”

He stood there in silence, not reacting to her words for a few seconds.

He halted the needle he was carrying right on onto the patient’s vein―

“Then that’s all more of a reason to trust her,” he said inserting the needle into her arm.

The EKG suddenly spiked up in a rapid motion, the patient on the bed began to move around in response to the injection.

“And I have to, because starting now, she’s my number one priority―”

The lady continued to stare him down with her arms crossed while everything was happening. It wasn’t a sign of defeat, yet a declaration of “We’ll discuss this later” stare.

She sighed.

“Fine, but I won’t back you up when we explain this to commander.”

“Deal.”

“I guess all we got to do now is wait for this freeloader to wake up.”

He pulled up a chair next to her bed, resting his head on the mattress.

“Now just what did your uncle get yourself into, Mary.”