Eli had been so surprised by the door flying open he barely registered the burly figure rushing at him. Even as he was thrown across the room, the situation seemed too surreal to be reality. It wasn’t until he crashed into the wall and pain shot through his body that he realized it wasn’t a dream.
He groaned as he slowly collected himself and looked up at his enraged attacker, who demanded, “What the f**k do you think you are doing?”
“You can’t hit me,” Eli finally mustered. “It’s against the law.”
“Law? You want to know the law? I’ll tell you asshole. It’s against the law for a doctor to touch his patient. How about that? Elle has been creeped out by you since she woke up. I won’t let you and your grubby hands anywhere near her!”
“What is going on in here?”
Caine turned to see the
