“I’m fine, Damien. What, are you going to follow me into the bathroom next?” Angela asked with a giggle. Ever since their experience with Don Simenn, Damien had been borderline obsessive with Angela’s safety. Everywhere they went, he would scan the place like a hawk, searching for potential trouble. If someone so much as breathed wrong in her direction, he was alert and ready to take them down. That bastard Saul was going to pay dearly, he thought. Although Angela found it endearing how much he cared about her, it was starting to get overbearing. Damien glanced at her as if she’d asked if the sky was blue. “You’re not following me into the bathroom,” Angela snapped, trying to hide her blush. He rolled his eyes. “Fine.” His phone rang. At this point he didn’t need to check to see who it was because the person had blown up his phone so much, he set a custom ringtone. “Her again?” Angela asked. “I don’t understand why you don’t just block her.” She knew he didn’t love

Having already seen him coming, Angela sprung into action, sending Andy sprawling backward with a fist to the gut, milliseconds from the bat hitting Damien square in the face.Andy hit the ground with a painful thud, howling in pain and sputtering like a misfiring exhaust.“Courtney, what the hell are you doing with this bastard?” he croaked in between agonized wheezes, glaring daggers at Damien.Courtney was beside herself. Worry, confusion, anger, desire; all these emotions swirled around in her head, rooting her to the spot. She wanted to go to Andy to check on him but what would Damien think about that? And that bitch with him, she would try to make it seem worse than it looked to Damien.Damien stared down at him with a smirk. “Seems you’re back on your feet. I barely even laid hands on you and it took you weeks to heal up? What a joke,” Damien said with a chuckle.If looks could kill, Damien would have been a pile of ash from the scorching glare Andy was giving him. “I have noth

Daniel knew what that bastard Arthur was doing. Entice Damien with insane strength so he would forgo the medical secret. To be honest, Daniel wouldn’t blame Damien if he went with either of the other two options. He was a young man once and he definitely understood the allure.Garth too was anticipating Damien’s answer. He always knew Damien was a selfish scumbag. Him falling for Arthur’s trick would only confirm that notion.By now, it was pretty obvious to everyone that Damien was going to go with either a martial arts secret or a Mystic art secret. How could he not? It hadn’t been a hard decision for them at all. It shouldn’t have been for him either but then Arthur had pulled out all the stops and had a demonstration done for him. A ripple of mocking snickers came from the crowd; he must have been feeling stupid now for choosing a medical secret.“I’m confident that I can fulfill any tasks you throw at me in record time, so the other secrets are within my reach anyway. Give me a m

“What the hell are you doing here?”“The hospital called me. Oh my God, Damien!”“Back off!”It was the scream that made his eyes snap open. And as soon as it did, he was blinded by white lights and his nose stung from the smell of disinfectant.“Where am I,” he muttered, mouth dryer than the Sahara.“Damien!” Angela blurted, rushing to his side. She had been at the door keeping Courtney from coming in. Why did the hospital have to call her. She would have a word with the matron once Damien was ok.“How are you feeling?”Before he could answer, Courtney was at his side playing the devoted ex-wife role. She had deliberately worn a lowcut dress that showed 90% of her cleavage and hugged her hourglass figure. Of course she was as cunning as ever!“Damien, I came as soon as they called me. Are you okay? What happened? Did you get into a fight…” Courtney shot him question after question but as he stared blankly at her, only one thing was on his mind.“You better have a good reason for show

“Renee, get over here now!” Angela roared, grabbing Renee’s arm.“What? Why are you being so pushy all of a sudden?”Angela’s response was to try and shove her under the hospital bed.“Angela, what the hell? Is he making you do this?” she glared at Damien.“You shouldn’t have come,” Damien said grimly.Renee was going to tell him that he couldn’t tell her what to do but his tone made her pause. And the way Angela was acting… “Angela what’s going on?”The thundering footsteps were getting closer. A loud commotion erupted outside the room; a bad omen. Angela frantically glanced around the room, looking for soemthing she could use as a weapon. Renee’s question didn’t even register. Damien hid behind the door, ready to strike down the first man that entered. “Why are you guys acting like you’re on drugs?” Renee blared. This was getting frustrating for her. Despite hating Damien’s guts, she’d turned up at the hospital for her sister’s sake only for her to try and shove her under a bed and