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"Sure" Peri nervously tucked her hair behind an ear before she began to roll up her sleeve Her scraped knuckles caught her eye, and a flash of scratched parquet flitted through her thoughts I will not MEP I will not MEP

"And you are?" Silas said to Allen as he set his tablet on the desk

Allen shifted in his seat "I’, you need to be quiet I don’t want you screwing up the results"

Allen leaned back in his chair, his arms crossed resolutely over his chest "I kno to be quiet"

Satisfied, Silas sat in the rolling chair as if it were a throne, cracking his knuckles as his tablet connected She wondered if his nose had been broken once or twice, which wouldn’t surprise her, with his broodingarms stuffed into his lab coat Even so, it only added to his rugged good looks He had just shaved, and the spicy pine of his aftershave was … different but good

Exhaling, he typed into his tablet with surprising facility She leaned to peek, and he turned it so she couldn’t Herdress shoes

Eyebrows high, he ripped the IV package open and swabbed her inner elbow "Rough night?" he said sarcastically

"That’s what they tell me," she said, then added a dry "Ow?" as the needle went in

"Sorry" Smile insincere, he taped the needle into place "You have nice veins They’re popping right up there"

"That’s because I don’t poke them all the tilanced up, having alotten he was there

Silas used toofrom his pocket into the drip port Iood stuff

Peri watched the drip, enjoying the lassitude plinking into her in time with the drops

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