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Returning that pleasant, open expression with one of her own, Ivie said, "Very well, thank you I ondering if I may please have a ith Havers?"

"But of course He’s just in with someone now If you’ll take a seat?"

"Thank you"

Ivie went over to the nicely appointed chairs and lowered herself down As she waited, she had to consciously still her bouncing heel and keep her fingers froh Silas’s ain, forward and backward Twice There had to be so they could do There just had to--

"Take care now," Havers said as he opened an inner door and patted the departingquite well, quite well, indeed"

Ivie closed her eyes That aristocratic accent of the healer’s reminded her of Silas They both had the same intonation and beautiful diction

"Ivie is here to see you, sire," his assistant announced

"Oh, yes, Ivie, how are you?"

Ivie ju with her hair She had interacted with the clinic’s head in different kinds of medical situations, but she hadn’t been one-on-one with hio?

"I aht in Do sit down"

His office was really beautiful, paneled in rich wood on which oil paintings of for as if he wanted to be surrounded by the memory of a place he had once lived in and loved And his desk was treilt curlicues on it, the piles of paperwork, files, and laptops all neatly arranged, nothing out of place

As he sat down on the far side of the expanse, he looked like he was exactly where he belonged, his horn-rilasses and his bow tie and his crisp white coat suddenly inti her

"What may I do for you?" he asked

Ivie ducked his eyes and focused on her twisting fingers As her mind went blank and her heart thundered, she had an ied herout in the cold froe ht air, his head up and shoulders back as if he were prepared to bull’s rush anything and everything in his path

That was her oak, that hter, daed Havers with a direct stare "We need to do so about morphine and cans of liquid nutrition I do not accept a ternosis I refuse to accept it"

Havers recoiled like she had dropped an f-bo a cat out of her pocket and having the thing take a crap on his rammed blotter

"I’ly about this, however"

The healer cleared his throat and steepled his hands "Forgive me, but hoe feel about patients doesn’t necessarily affect their outcome"

"It will in this case"

Havers pushed his specs up higher on his aristocratic nose "Ivie, I have long admired your commitment to your patients, your compassion, your focus You are an exceptional nurse, and that is why I suggested you go and see about the private position to offer hih his medical file, and--"

"Except I understand that his retainer has soht Pritchard had already been by, hadn’t she "It’s not her decision And I don’t care that I offended her--"

"That is not a professional stance, Ivie That is not the conduct or the attitude of a professional"

She looked away Shook her head "You don’t understand"

"I assured the retainer that if there had been so, you would do your utmost to ensure that the patient couldwas in the forefront of everyone’sto seek you out at the end of ed, but not immersed"

As Havers continued to talk, his words drifted off into the background, Ivie’s er Brotherhood had private physicians and surgeons orked for theo to the Audience House first thing after sundown and see--