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“What time did this happen?” I asked.
“About twenty-five minutes ago,” River said.
“And was he disoriented at all afterward?”
“No.”
“Is there any chance he hit his head?”
The man cracked the smallest smirk, and my stomach tipped. “Nah, he was just upset that he lost a tooth.”
He tickled the child then, fingers lightly digging into his sides.
Raucous giggles filled the room, and the little boy clutched his father’s wrist as he squirmed and wheezed, “Teefare really important, Dad. You know what my dentist told me. I gotta take really good careof ’em.”
“They are, but I think it’s not going to be a big deal since it was a baby one,” I assured him. “You just made room for the new one to come in.”
I stepped over to the small desk attached to the wall and laid the chart on it. I scrawled the information and left it open for Dr. Reynolds.
Moving to the door, I opened it then paused to look back, feet stagnant with the thought of walking out. “He should be right in. I think you’re going to be just fine, Nolan.”
The little boy grinned as he leaned his back against his father’s chest, his little arm looping up to hold the man by the back of the neck.
And God, it might have been the most precious thing I’d ever seen.
“I’m always fine, just as long as I got my dad.”
NINE
RIVER
I hadno clue what the fuck was wrong with me, how I was being possessed by this compulsion, but it wouldn’t let me go.
My guts tangled, cock steel, interest piqued.
Which was how I found myself easing up to the doorway of a small breakroom, gobbling up the sight of her where she stood facing away at the far wall, digging into a locker with her name written on a piece of tape at the top.
She had her chestnut hair in a short, fat braid, and she was wearing pink scrubs, her tight little body concealed underneath.
But I remembered.
Remembered the way she’d looked in those shorts and that fitted tank. Remembered her smooth, soft skin. Remembered what I’d inked on her that she now had hidden beneath the sleeve of her shirt.
I knew the second she felt me there, the way the energy shifted, and her spine went straight. Tension rode through her system and blew back into me. Didn’t know which of us was radiating it most, this frenetic buzz that curled and twisted through the air.
Only thing I knew was I’d never felt anything like it before.
She finally peeked back at me from over her shoulder, those delicate features carved in wariness and uncertainty, though therewas no missing the spark of attraction that flared in those wide, brown eyes.
“Where’s Nolan?” she asked, peering farther behind me.
“In the restroom right next door. Saw you in here when I passed.”
What really happened was I felt you in here and you stopped me in my goddamn tracks.
Wasn’t about to admit that.
“Is he okay?” That sultry voice was a whisper and doing stupid things to me. I wasn’t sure I’d ever felt a pull like this before.
