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‘Sorry,’ she murmured as her hand accidentally brushed his

‘No problear?’

‘Yes, thanks’

Again their hands touched and again he felt an electrical current feather across his skin

Carly stirred her coffee Dare shifted in his seat ‘That’ll keep you up tonight,’ he pointed out softly

‘No, it won’t’ She gave him a brief smile ‘You learn pretty quickly as a resident physician to sleep wherever you can, whenever you can, no matter what the circumstances’

‘Sounds hectic’

‘Oh, it is’ Her sency departments are busy, chaotic, orderly—which I know seems like a contradiction, but it’s not—and really stressful’ Her s those years’

‘I knohat you mean’

‘You do?’

‘Sure You don’t put in an all-nighter at a gas station and then race back to ca up a paper on the history of economic rationalisation in the Eastern Bloc without a little caffeine hit on the side’

Carly’s eyes sparkled into his ‘Exactly’ Her srew ‘But you know the best coffee is the first coffee of the day, right? When it’s nice and hot and the acidity just rolls across your tongue’ Her eyes turned heavenwards ‘It’s sublime, isn’t it?’

‘The law of diruffly

Her eyebrow cocked ‘Say that again?’

Dare laughed ‘DMR, as I remembered it for the exaall others constant, will at some point yield lower incremental per unit returns’ He chuckled softly at her blank expression ‘In the case of coffee it et from it’