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Knowing he needed to do soes running raloved up to swab the abscess again

“Did you see the culture I’d previously done?” she asked, sh or be afraid As, but sasn’t an adjective he’d use to describe her Unless they were talking about her lips She had tasted sweet

“Yes,” he answered, studying her, “but your notes say the area was healing well That’s obviously no longer true I want a new culture”

She flashed her perfectly straight teeth “Good idea”

Cole reed with hi was definitely up And not just his temperature and heart rate He dabbed the swab in the center of the abscess, carefully inserted the tip into the auger filled tube and sealed the lid

“You think so back on the elevated exaloved and opened a sterile drape, dropped gauze onto the field, poured a se of sterilized scissors, needle holders and toothed tweezers

“Possibly That’s what the culture will tell us” She opened a bottle of packing gauze and glanced toward Cole “Do you want to irrigate the area or do you want me to do it?”

Cole hesitated only a ary sweetness of the past five e, don’t-put- her residency, she hadn’t liked watching from the sidelines If he wanted to win her trust he’d have to prove he could deal with her strength and independence, right along with her feigned sugary sweetness

“You do it,” he told her “I’ll assist”

The save him was so brilliant the sun could have come out in bay two Definitely his body heated as if the sun had He was on fire from the inside out

She donned ated the wound, then packed a thin ribbon of sterile gauze into the opening, leaving the tip out for easier removal

Watching her work, Cole handed her what she needed before she had to ask When she was finished and had covered the area with a dressing, she glanced up at hi that bit deep into him

“You make an excellent assistant, Cole”

Cole She called hi his name on her lips made his knees wobble

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