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“I’ my best”

After visiting with my friends for a while, I went to my room and refilled my backpack with some new toiletries and the last of ,” I said, as I returned to the kitchen “Yolanda, I’ll see you at work later And I plan to be hoht and early for our brunch tomorrow”

Yolanda said she’d walk me out, and on the way to the front door she said, “Even if you’re not calling hi close”

“We are”

“Please be careful, Casey I don’t want you to get hurt”

“He’s not the same with , and he can be so vulnerable”

She asked, “Doesn’t that strike you as odd, though? The whole Jekyll and Hyde thing? How do you even knohich is the real Theodore Koenig?”

I felt guilty for thinking of him in exactly those terel who curls up in ht and just needs to be held I don’t know the whole story yet, but he’s clearly been through a lot of bad shit in his life I’m not surprised he’s put up some walls, especially at work”

“It’scold and emotionless on the job I’ve known quite a few doctors who aren’t exactly up for Miss Congeniality, but this shit with Koenig is above and beyond Haven’t you heard the stories about him?”

“No, and you shouldn’t believe a bunch of rumors”

“Coossip, but I think you should hear this I’uy”

We’d reached the front porch by that point, and I sighed and turned to her “Fine Tell me what you’ve heard, so I can tell you it’s bullshit”

She shut the door behind us and lowered her voice “This caot a job at Stanford Medical Center last Deceether for a couple of years before that and were pretty tight Layla did her residency with Koenig and had close friends ent to med school with him, so that’s how she knew about this”

“Okay”