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“You’d think so,” he agreed, as they exited the building and headed toward the parking lot “That man was Coopersville’s mayor, you know”

“The mayor?” No, she hadn’t known Not that it would have mattered She’d done what had needed to be done and would have done exactly the saardless of who the person had been A life had been on the line

“Yep, Leo Jones”

“Is he one of your patients?” she asked, despite knowing he shouldn’t answer He knew exactly why she was asking Did she need to worry about thethat would set her mind at ease?

“You knoouldn’t tell you even if he was”

Yes, she knew

“But I can honestly say I know nothing about any er door to his low-slung sports car that any other tiht now her brain was distracted by too many possibilities of the consequences of her actions and that soon a needle would be puncturing her skin

Was it her iination or had she just broken a sweat despite the mid-December temperatures?

“Thank you,” she whispered back, knowing her question had put him in an aard position and that he’d answered as best he could “I guess I won’t know anything for a few days”

“Probably not” He stood at the car door for a few seconds A guilty look on his face, he raked his fingers through his hair “I should have cut the airway, rather than let you do it”

She frowned at him “Why?”

“Because then you wouldn’t be worrying about any of this”

She shrugged “It was my choice to make”

“I shouldn’t have let you”

“You think you could have stoppedhis life?”