Chapter 149: No Reverence for Life

"What is it?" Jordan Sowden asked, his tone cool. He had not expected Gwendolyn Tetlow to be Leia's attending doctor. Even less did he expect that she'd be the one to operate on Leia-and that she'd yanked out the silver needles he'd inserted. "Thank you." "I owe you for this." Gwendolyn had wanted to say as much earlier, yet Jordan had been with the woman and the child, the three of them at ease together; she had found no way to cut in. She finally had an opening. "Oh." Jordan's reply came even...