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“Alanced over his shoulders down the narrow corridor leading off the sick ward to the office When his gaze met hers next, steely determination had settled in “We need to talk”

She crossed her ar to intiical suite not to your satisfaction?”

“I haven’t been satisfied in years, Amelia”

“Call me Dr Stockton” She emphasized each word “And I fail to see what your lack of satisfaction has to do with me”

“Don’t you?” he asked softly, laughing with more than a hint of irony

“Go away” She didn’t look at hiht, weeks after the non-wedding, when he’d co? Besides, if he was trying to tell her he hadn’t been with anyone for two years, she’d never believe hi to play her for a fool Again She touched the desk, running her fingers over the s up “I never wanted to see you again”

“You made that obvious”

“Yet here you stand,” she needlessly pointed out, riffling through papers as if she was bored with their conversation Truth was, she needed to get away from hi so close, with hi her with such intensity

“Unless orders co otherwise, I’ned landside”

Six eon on board a ship Anything longer than that and their surgical skills ht become rusty Their usual days consisted of elective procedures such as vasectoallbladder and appendix re as intense as working in a hospital setting like Cole must be used to

“Good for you” She kept her tone level but, as she had for much of the day, inside she screamed Loud and fierce and full of frustration

Sixwith hi for six months She was a Stockton

“Which er for me”

She glanced up, h”

“You don’t hateup pretty strong vibes that you’d like to dump me overboard”