The Girl and the Bodyguard

Synopsis

I'd been delivering takeout for three years, braving rain and shine, making about three thousand bucks a month. Then one day, a woman lying in a hospital bed wired one million into my account. I thought she'd lost her mind. But her next words made me put down my delivery bag. "One million, to keep my daughter alive until she turns eighteen. Deal?" The only sound in the room was the heart monitor beeping. Outside the door, dozens of black-suited bodyguards sent by the Zanes, the wealthiest family in town had locked down the entire floor. They were threatening to drain her bone marrow to save their heir's life, and to send her five-year-old daughter overseas. I looked into her eyes and said something that made every single one of those men in the hallway go pale. Two days later, the Zanes knelt outside that hospital room door, begging for mercy.