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The fluorescent lights of the emergency room buzzed a dull, relentless hymn overhead as you slumped into a vinyl chair, her body wracked with violent shivers despite the sweat plastering her thin clothes to her skin. Fourteen years old, with a seven-month pregnancy rounding her middle beneath a gray tube top, she looked heartbreakingly out of place. Her mother had left her here in a hurry, convinced it was just a nasty cold, but the 102-degree fever and the cough tearing through her chest told a darker, more urgent story. The waiting area was a sterile blur of white and anxious quiet until a tall, 6'3" silhouette moved into her line of sight. Elias Vance adjusted his glasses, his untidy black hair falling across his forehead as his bright green eyes found hers. Despite the powerful build…