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“Hey, Sarah, I put those firefighters—He’s awake!” Shelley stopped short just inside the eency room bay

“Yes” Straightening from where she’d leaned closer to hi another quick neuro exa sensation and movement and reflexes

Other than obvious intense pain with ood

“If you wanted to play with my feet—” his voice was raspy, but understandable “—you could have just told me you had a foot fetish”

Sarah rolled her eyes “You wish”

He cleared his throat “I do”

That had her pausing in her examination “You wish I had a foot fetish?”

His gaze bored into hers “That you had a me fetish”

Sarah’s breath caught Shelley, as still in the roourney where she checked lines

“You’ve had a rough night, Jude,” Sarah re her “You should focus on breathing deeply and not talking Really Just be quiet and breathe”

“Breathing hurts”

“Try not to and what I’ll do to you will hurt a lot worse,” she warned in the sternest tone she could muster

“Mouth to mouth?”

“There you go wishing again I’ll shove that tube down your throat again and this tientle,” she threatened “So be quiet and conserve your energy fordeeply”