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As Layla was led into the clinic, her heart was pounding and her legs were shaking Fortunately, Phury and Qhuinn had no probleht

However, her experience was coh - thanks to the Primale&039;s presence When the facility&039;s exterior entry panel slid aside, one of the nurses was there to meet them, and they were immediately rushed back to a different part of the clinic froht before

As they were let into an exalanced around and hesitated Whatwas this? The walls were covered in pale silk, and paintings in gold fraular intervals No clinical exaht before - here, there was a bed that was covered with an elegant duvet and layered with stacks of fat pillows And then, instead of a stainless-steel sink and plain white cabinets, a painted screen obscured one whole corner of the room - behind which, she had to assume, the clinical tools of Havers&039;s trade were kept

Unless their group had been sent to the physician&039;s personal quarters?

"He&039;ll be right with you," the nurse said, s? Coffee or tea?"

"Just the doctor," the Priht away, Your Excellency"

She bowed again and rushed off

"Let&039;s get you up on this, okay?" Phury said over by the bed

Layla shook her head "Are you sure we&039;re in the right place?"

"Yup" The Primale came and helped her walk across the room "This is one of their VIP suites"

Layla looked over her shoulder Qhuinn had settled into the corner opposite the screen, his black-clad body like a shadow thrown by a menace He stayed preternaturally still, his eyes focused on the floor, his breathing steady, his hands behind his back Yet he was not at ease No, he appeared ready and able to kill, and for a h her She had never been frightened of hiain, she&039;d never seen hiressive state

But at least the banked violence didn&039;t seem directed toward her, or even the Primale Certainly not at Doc Jane as the female sat down in a silk-covered chair

"Coo"

Layla tried to lift herself, but the mattress was too far off the floor and her upper body was as weak as her legs

"I&039;ve got you" Phury carefully slipped his arms around her back and ran theo"

Settling on the bed, she grunted, a sharp cra her pelvic area As every eye in the roorih the bleeding re, the duration of their grip growing longer, the spaces between theoing to be one steady agony

"I&039;m fine - "

The knock on the door cut her off "May I come in?"

The h to in Scribe," she said as she gathered her strength

"Yeah," Phury said darkly "Enter - "

What happened next was so fast and furious, the only way of describing it ith a colloquialism she had learned from Qhuinn

All hell broke loose

Havers opened the door, stepped inside - and Qhuinn attacked the doctor, springing forward froer

Layla shouted in alarm - but he didn&039;t kill the male

He did, however, close that door with the physician&039;s body - or mayhap it was the male&039;s face And it was hard to knohether the clap that resounded was the portalthrown against the panels Probably a coly sharp blade was pressed against a pale throat "Guess what you&039;re going to do first, asshole?" Qhuinn growled "You&039;re going to apologize for treating her like a goddamn incubator"

Qhuinn yanked the lasses were shattered, one lens spiderwebbed with cracks, the earpiece on the other side sticking out at a wonky angle

Layla shot a look at Phury The Primale didn&039;t seee chest and leaned back against the wall beside her, evidently co out as it did Over in the chair across the way, Doc Jane was the saarded the drama

"Look her in the eye," Qhuinn spat, "and apologize"

When the fighter jangled the healer as if Havers were naught but a rag doll, some jumble of words came out of the doctor

Shoot Layla supposed she should be a lady and not enjoy this, but there was satisfaction to be had at the vengeance

Sadness, too, however, because it should never have coy," Qhuinn derovel? I&039; at your feet"

"That was sufficient Thank you"

"Now you&039;re going to tell her" - Qhuinn pulled that shakein their sockets, his loose white coat waving like a flag - "and only her, what the fuck is going on with her body"

"I needthe chart - "

Qhuinn bared his fangs and put the biting the thing off "Bullshit And if you are telling the truth? That lapse of ht now"

Havers was already pale, but that , Doctor And if the Pri ih to tell reat"

"My pleasure," Phury said

"I&039;, Doc And I&039;uy"

"You are" Frolasses, theis"

She al the contact This was hard enough to hear without having to face the doctor who&039;d treated her so badly

Then again, Havers was the one who had to look, not her

Qhuinn&039;s eyes hat she stared into as Havers said, "You&039;re losing the pregnancy"

Things got wavy at that point, which she took to h It was as if her soul had been flushed out of her body, everything that had anione as if it had never been

Qhuinn showed no reaction at all He didn&039;t blink Didn&039;t alter his stance or his dagger hand

"Is there anything that can be done medically?" Doc Jane asked

Havers went to shake his head, but froze as the sharp point of the knife cut into the skin of his neck As blood leaked out and ran into the starched collar of his for of which I ahly "Not on the earth, at any rate"

"Tell her it&039;s not her fault," Qhuinn de"

Layla closed her eyes "Assu that&039;s true - "

"In humans that&039;s usually the case, provided there&039;s no trauma," Doc Jane interjected

"Tell her," Qhuinn snapped, his arhtly, as if he were a heartbeat away fro his own violence

"&039;Tis true," Havers croaked