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He scowled, his breath hitching as he reached for his chest

"The drug you gaveat where he was touching, and as I did his eyes seemed to come into focus

He swore

"It wasn’t you

It was someone else… I’m in so much frickin’ pain I can barely see" Given ht I was a doctor

"That’s all right," I said

"I can help you" He reached for a clipboard at the side of his bed and shoved it toward me

"This is lared at ure out how to assign me just one doctor even if it was e of his file and my eyes fell on the first words written on the fore

"Tobias Cole

Bronchial cancer

Stage four" That’s good enough

I pretended to be studying the file for a fewa seat next to his bed

I reached over and felt his pulse

He squirmed away fromdown at theat the corners of his eyes fro in my ears

"The trick is to stop before you feel you’ve started" What the hell does that eveniure it out

I just had to hope that his blood was disgusting enough to aid ri" I assu hio away

But first, I want you to close your eyes

Can you do that?" He looked confused, but he didn’t argue

He nodded and shut his eyes

Drawing the curtains, I bent down and, covering his s into his neck

He was too weak to make much noise anyway

And the noise he did uishable froh the halls of this level of the hospital

I felt the blood begin to rush into h my nose in relief that it tasted as stale as it sain, I foundwhat that meant