Heart of a Gargoyle by Cara Wylde EPUB & PDF

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• Author: Cara Wylde
• Language: English
• Genre: Science Fiction Romance
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Lola
I closed my office door and leaned against it for a moment, trying in vain
to get myself together. But no, I was shaking uncontrollably from a mixture
of anger and grief, and tears were already rolling down my cheeks.
My day wasn’t supposed to start like this. I wasn’t supposed to lose the
patient I’d spent so much time caring for, not after everything she’d been
through and all the strings I’d pulled and favors I’d cashed in to get her the
lifesaving care she required. I’d thought the world-renowned surgeon with
the top-secret security clearance would be able to save her life. It turned out
I was wrong.

And the worst part?
Well, no. The worst part was that my patient, the female orc I’d become
so attached to over the past several weeks, was dead. But the second worst
part was the fact that I seemed to be the only person in this entire IMRA
facility who cared.

None of the other scientists had developed the same bond with her that I
had, and my boss – God, what a joke! General Hume didn’t seem to care at
all whether the aliens we dedicated our careers to studying lived or died, as
long as we were able to harvest the organs and tissue samples in the end.
Just one more reason why I should’ve listened to my gut when I found
out I’d be working for the military. and not for an actual scientific branch of
the government.

I supported the military. I was grateful to live in a country that had a
strong, robust fighting force. But trying to explain to a general why it was
more beneficial to keep an alien life form – an enemy combatant, to use his
words – alive for more than a few weeks was damn near impossible at the
best of times.

And when that alien was already badly injured and openly hostile to
everyone in the lab aside from me? Well, there was only so much I could do
for her.

Not that it made losing her any easier. I would’ve happily kept fighting,
and arguing, and advocating for her every minute of every day if she’d
somehow managed to pull through the surgery.
“But she didn’t,” I said out loud to my otherwise silent office. “She didn’t
survive. And now that she’s gone, I need to make some difficult decisions.”
Decisions that felt much more real and pressing now that I’d given them
a voice.

I took a few steps over to my desk and sunk into the squeaky fake leather
chair. I needed to quit my job. To move on from IMRA and find something
more suited to my personality, and more aligned with my values.
Unless I’d spent so long taking orders from General Hume that my values
had become almost as twisted as his.

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