Mack answered the front door swiftly before the banging woke Lucy up. She'd been sleeping fitfully for over an hour since they got back to his place.
He was in the process of letting Sitnikov's doctor in the door when he heard a muffled scream from the bedroom. He didn't think twice. He left the old man standing in the doorway and hurtled down the hallway toward Lucy. He didn't give two shits what the man thought, he wasn't going to leave his woman alone when she needed him, though he suspected it was only a nightmare.
His heart wrenched wide open when he opened the bedroom door and found her curled on her side, arms wrapped around her head, tears streaming down her face, fingernails clawing at her face as she mumbled to herself. He dropped to his knees beside the bed and took her wrists
