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Because she orking Vale had see every second of her ti time to come up with an excuse not to accompany him this weekend?

She, Vale, two neurosurgeons, two neurophysiologists, and a couple of research assistants working on the Parkinson project were spread out around the twenty-seat cherry table at one end of Vale’s office Despite the long hours they’d put in every night that week, they’d barely made a dent in the pile of work to be done before they tested the hypothesis in the operating rooh deep-brain stimulation therapies had been in use for years, with the new data from the Brainiac Codex, the hope was that the new device would relieve the trereat strides in the treat disease would be made

She wiped her hand across her face

“So?” Vale leaned in and whispered next to her ear, his war the tiny hairs on her nape stand at attention

She glanced his ondering where he drew his boundless energy fro ever fazed him or made him lose his infaht, and still have photos of himself and soht club or fancy restaurant

“Nothing a good night’s sleep won’t solve” True She hadn’t slept well since he’d told her she was going to Cape May Plus, no as she going to tell hi over to thinking about what she was going to wear at his cousin’s wedding No ould she risk losing the respect she’d fought so hard to gain

Unfortunately, he didn’t look convinced by her answer, studying her with eyes too intelligent for his own good “You’re sure?”

“Yes, I’lanced at her watch A little after seven If they finished up within the next hour,new to lift her confidence at spending the weekend with Vale’s glitzy family She looked around at the roo haul and bit back a sigh

“Got a hot date?”

“What?”

He’d spoken low, for her ears only, but her response ca their way and just as quickly going back to their work

“That’s the third time in the past fifteen minutes you’ve looked at your watch,” he pointed out “Weimportant”

Again Vale spoke low, but Faith’s ears burned Was everyone trying to look as if they were ignoring them or were they truly so absorbed in their work? Marcus Fishe was the only one whose gaze lingered on them Faith quickly looked away froh Marcus’s focus within the clinic was geared more toward issues with multiple sclerosis, he’d jumped on board with the Parkinson’s project in the hope that the brain- data would lend itself to other treatments

“My work is important” Determined to keep her mind absorbed on her work and not on the fact she’d be spending her weekend with Vale, Faith highlighted an abnorlia to the ot to pack for this weekend, and I’d hoped to… Never mind”

There was no reason to tell hi, to spend tie herself prior to attending the wedding