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Maybe he just hadn’t reached the elevator yet Even if he did take the elevator, she still had a chance to make a mad dash down the stairs and beat hiina took off in a hurry but immediately realized she’d be much faster if she took her shoes off A few steps down, she took one shoe off then went for the other and lost her footing Her heart jumped to her throat when she tried to recover and couldn’t Before she kneas happening, she heard herself yelp fro after that happened so fast there was nothing she could do to stop it Her ar as her entire body went down The things in her purse flew everywhere as it fell out in front of her, and she hit every step, unable to slow the fall until she finally hit the here the stairwell turned with a loud and painful thud

Dazed for a few seconds, it took her a rasp what had just happened She shook her head and iretted it because it made her head throb She was so dazed she didn’t even realize the loud clanking was so up, she was face to face with Sergeant Billings, who immediately crouched down, the usual hardened expression now very concerned

"Don’t move," he said as she tried to sit up "Lie down instead," he instructed her, and she did as he told her "You ht have a neck or spinal injury You’ll ina moved her neck from side to side to assess whether her neck was really injured or not She tried in vain to ignore the screa hi kind of attention to yourself You didn’t just trip or fall--you rolled!

"My neck feels fine," she said, wanting nothing et as far away fro the pain now, Regina felt so incredibly e again

"Look in ly she did Was it possible they’d gotten even bluer?

As he held her fro by her arot an up close less dazed look at him Unlike all the other times when she’d seen him in his utility uniform, he noore a service uniforave hine he wore se to close her eyes and just inhale deeply She gazed into those very serious blue eyes

"Can you tell me what your name is?" he asked

Instantly, she was yanked out of the wistful state she hadn’t even noticed she’d gone into Her insides warer; she couldn’t decide But she was consu to act as if he didn’t remember her?

She jerked her arm away froleaain, but she still glared

"Yes," he nodded, and to her utter shock, he smiled softly "I knoho you are, Ms Brady I was just trying to assess how hard you hit your head"

"Oh," she said, and as if she couldn’t feel anymore embarrassed than she already did, she now felt like a coina" Even through her embarrassment, she was surprised by what a smile fro," she explained as she once again tried to sit up, and he allowed it this ti hurts that bad"