The brothers looked at her, love shining in their eyes as the doors to the operation theatre swung shut.

They stood still, breathing hard.

When she comes out, said O’Grady in a soft growl to his brother,

“Saint, I’m going to propose formally, drag our Pet to the altar, make an honest woman of her, what say?”

Finn St Just nodded. He was too overcome to say anything. Having had a surgery recently, he knew the utter loneliness of the person who was wheeled into the theatre, lying on the impersonal sheets before the actual procedure, when one was wheeled into the theatre. The feeling of fear, of panic that...