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"You’ll have to undo your pants too" She swore she saw the faintest glimmer of amusement in his expression before it shuttered

His hand hovered over his belt buckle "Close the door I don’t needherself in a room with hih her The excite that shouldn’t happen, not until she knew ave herself aas she closed the door

"There" She turned back to him "Happy?"

"I’ve been opened up fro for joy"

"You’re already starting to heal," she pointed out, and then she stopped talking, because he tore open his fly and her er worked

He didn’t wear underwear

Soherself a muchneeded kick in the butt, she fetched a tray of supplies and returned to hi to clean the area--"

"With your tongue?"

She jerked back "What?"

"That’s what my vampire medic would do"

"Eew And no I’m not a vampire, and even if I were, that’s just notprotocol"

"Did your boss at Underworld General tell you that? The one who doesn’t limmer of amusement was back

"You know, I don’t think you needup quickly, though there was a three-inch gash where the knife had entered that was deeper than the rest of the laceration, and it could definitely use stitches or glue

"I think I do" S, he tucked his hands behind his head "So do me"

With a huff, she swabbed blood froic reactions to disinfectants It was probably inappropriate to notice how hard his flesh was, how deeply cut the muscles were, and how fir completely inappropriate, so she found it hard to chastise herself

"So, Vladlena" he said, "why didn’t your little voice trick work on me?"

"Call me Lena Andvoice trick?"

"I saw the way you were able to settle the warg doith only a feords"

"Ah, that" She shrugged "It only works on canines"

"Odd for a tiger, don’t you think?" He peered at her so intently through half-lidded eyes that she felt stripped bare Vulnerable

She pushed aside the whisper of panic that said he ht not believe her cover story, but she hadn’t wanted to draw any suspicion by revealing that she was a hyena A hyena who can’t change into a hyena A hyena who has never displayed a single hyena trait She was the worst shapeshifter ever

"We all have unique gifts" Tie "You’re very lucky the blade didn’t enter an inch higher, or your stomach would have been punctured"

"And that’s bad?"

She dabbed at the deep laceration, and though it must have hurt, Nate didn’t even flinch "For a vaans heal quickly, but because the stoh your body, it can bleed you out"

"Wouldn’t kill me"

"No, but it’ll make you weaker than a newborn baby for several days"

He watched her finish wiping down his skin "How long have you been a nurse?"

"You’d know the answer to that if you’d read rin turned up the corners of his mouth "Maybe I like the sound of your voice and want to hear it from you instead"

Insufferable va schools in the huot a job at Underworld General"

And talk about a culture shock Human medicine and demon medicine were two completely different animals Every demon species was different, frons to the type of treatments they could tolerate--or not tolerate

"What drew you to the hed "My father was a surgeon at Underworld General" As a child, she’d bandaged her stuffed aniot older, the sound of an a