This False Start Teaser is in Falcon's POV.
“I
hate needles,” she whispered to me in the elevator, turning off her phone,
putting it in her pocket and grabbing my arm. I put my arm around her shoulders
and she swatted me away, ever trying to be strong.
We headed through hallways,
following arrows on the walls until we reached the Cancer Center. She was
greeted by a woman her age who, after making us scrub down like surgeons,
escorted us to a room with wall to wall reclining chairs. Some held people were hooked up to tubes, reading magazines, listening to music, watching The Pelican
Brief play on the flat screens hanging from the ceiling. I couldn’t help the
thought pulsing through my head, ‘no one deserves this’.