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He tossed the syringe into the trash and stulass of water When he looked into the lass, shattering it on the counter
His personal sylass, still inverted Butti!" Gema Soratube, and quickly crunched a set of coe Shade," she snapped, and Chu-Hua, a Guai nurse who reses, dove for the intercoet him"
-Chu-Hua lus were breaking all over the hospital, always at critical et into that huot a pulse" Shawn, a vampire physician assistant, didn’t bother to hide the relief in his voice This Sora was a victi, and no one wanted to see a deet hied" Ge too late that it didn’t work "Anyone know if the OR is ready?"
-Chu-Hua stepped into the room "I can’t find Shade, but Dr Shakvhan is ready in OR two"
Within ht red skin had faded to a bleached brick color, wheeled to the operating room She volunteered to assist, but Shakvhan and Reaver could handle things more expertly there than Geency patch jobs and routine, ery, which required stamina, patience, and a steady hand
Exhausted, she tossed her bloody gloves and gown and headed back to the e for sixteen hours straight, and still there was no end in sight The hospital was seriously understaffed, and naturally, the slayers had been extra busy
The only break she’d had since the underworld had gone nutso was last night, when she’d met an impossibly handsome demon named Lore, and he’d asked her out for coffee Apparently, he’d been heading into the hospital because he was interested in a medical career, so he’d picked her brain about the hospital, how it got started, the staff… anything she cared to share
Afterward, she’d invited hi out, and he’d agreed They’d spent the evening doing soh he’d never taken off his jacket and gloves
She wondered if he was scarred beneath his clothes, orsoed, like scales or quills
Maybe next tiet hiot back on the dating horse, and Lore, with his off-the-charts danger-and-sex vibe, uy, she was calling the shots
The doors to the ahts She hoped like hell whoever entered wouldn’t be another patient
"Hey, Ge mere feet away, so close she could smell the leather of his jacket and the natural male spice that made her world tilt, and she had to catch herself on a crash cart
With spiky dark hair that begged her to run her fingers through it, eyes the color of new deniular features, Kynan was as handsome as ever Beneath his jeans, black henley, and bomber jacket, he had a lean, powerful athlete’s body to freaking die for She’d seen it back when he used to come into the huht he was nothing more than a married ood life
The truth, that he and his wife had headed a local Aegis cell, hadn’t changed her feelings for hi, but her heart hadn’t cared about that Especially after his wife died and he quit The Aegis to work at UG She’d actually believed she had a shot at hiet back?" And why did her heart have to jump around like it was excited to see him even after he’d broken it?
She could still remember the day that Runa, whose brother also worked for the R-XR, had invited her to the house she shared with Shade, handed her a e for you I’m sorry… but he said to tell you not to wait for him"
God, Geht, when Lore had caught her on a particularly bad day She’d been exhausted, worried about Wraith To top it off, that ht the babies by the hospital
Gem was thrilled for Shade and Runa, but their happiness had been like a blow Kynan was gone, probably for good, and she wasn’t sure she’d ever have children She wanted them, but she was half demon, stuck between torlds, and she refused to subject any child to what she’d gone through
"I got back last night," he said in his gravelly voice, a result of a battlefield injury he’d suffered years ago while serving as an Arhanistan
"So why are you here?" She tried to keep her hopes in check because while she wanted to hear that he’d coh to know she needed to be realistic Not that realistic was a possibility when hisher like a lover
"I can’t get into that right now, but we need to talk"
"I think you said it all with theto leave hiood plan had he not grabbed her ar like this?"