Having received an unexpected gift that would see him through life, Dan had to thank a young woman he had briefly met. Plucking up the courage, he made the call. Only to be told that Tess was lying on her deathbed. Hoping he could make it in time, he raced to the hospital. Seeing the state she was in, and the way she was being treated, he thought nothing of taking her home. Something deep inside had woken up after lying dormant. Call it abduction or kidnapping, this was his emergency. And he would not let her die!