p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1""You're awfully chipper today, Dr. Browne," remarked Reznick as the pair walked into the emergency room./span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1""Just thrilled to be working the E.R with you today, Dr. Reznick."/span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1""Male, early 20s, came off his motorcycle," called the paramedic. /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1""He's conscious, but he's lost a lot of blood. Suspected fractured ribs and left ankle."/span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1"The two young surgeons took over, checking the patient as a nurse paged for Doctor Melendez. /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1"Claire hooked the patient up to the machines and checked him over for brakes, confirming three ribs were fractured and his left ankle had been almost completely crushed. /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1"Melendez rushed over, standing opposite Claire watching the patient and his residents. /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1""He's got three broken ribs, looks like his ankle is almost completely crushed," declared Dr. Reznick. "I'm worried he's punctured a lung."/span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1""Good work, Dr Reznick - get him cleaned up and over to imaging," Melendez nodded. /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1"Without even so much as a glance in Claire's direction, the surgeon followed Morgan and the patient down the hall. /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1"***/span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1"Claire was on suction, while the team repaired the patient's ankle. /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1"Melendez hadn't said a word to her (other than "suction") in the six hours they'd been on shift. She didn't think he'd even looked her in the eye. /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1"So when the clock turned to 9pm and the other residents had gone home, she wandered up to Melendez's office, walking through the door without knocking. /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1""We had sex, right?" She said. /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1""Excuse me?" /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1""You and me, last night, at my house. You were going to drop me home, you came in, you told me you thought our friendship was more than that - and then you kissed me," she spelled out. /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1""Claire, not here -."/span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1""We did have sex, did we not?"/span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1"He stood up from his desk and stepped towards her, looking around the floor to make sure no one was in any of the joining offices. /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1""Yes, Claire, we did have sex," he said quietly./span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1"She sat on the back of the couch as he walked towards her. /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1""Do you wish we hadn't? Is that why you couldn't even look at me today? Why you put me on suction, for a simple broken ankle I could have done myself in my sleep?"/span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1"He touched her arm, but quickly pulled back, shoving both hands in his pockets and looking at the floor./span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1""No, I don't wish we didn't have sex. I'm... I'm really glad we did." /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1"He half smiled at her, but she stared at him, blank./span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1""I just knew that if I even so much as looked at you, in front of the others, I'd blush like a school kid and want to kiss you right then and there."/span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1"Her cheeks had gone red and she looked at him smiling. /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1""You could have at least texted me, or something. Told me you weren't really ignoring me."/span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1""Yeah? And how obvious would that have been? God forbid Morgan, or Shaun for that matter, saw your phone."/span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1"He was right. He had to make her mad at him all day, other wise their cover would most definitely have been blown. They were already under a microscope, but now they really did have something to hide. /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1"It took all her self control not to kiss him there in his office. Wearing the same white shirt he'd worn yesterday, because despite setting an early enough alarm, he wasn't left with enough time to go home before work. /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1""You're right, I know," she conceded. "It just sucks."/span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1""It does. And it's going to be even worse now. There's no denying I have favourites after last night."/span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1""And this morning," Claire smirked. /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1""Yes. And this morning... It's late Dr. Browne, why don't I take you home?"br /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1""Just thrilled to be working the E.R with you today, Dr. Reznick."/span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1""Male, early 20s, came off his motorcycle," called the paramedic. /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1""He's conscious, but he's lost a lot of blood. Suspected fractured ribs and left ankle."/span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1"The two young surgeons took over, checking the patient as a nurse paged for Doctor Melendez. /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1"Claire hooked the patient up to the machines and checked him over for brakes, confirming three ribs were fractured and his left ankle had been almost completely crushed. /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1"Melendez rushed over, standing opposite Claire watching the patient and his residents. /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1""He's got three broken ribs, looks like his ankle is almost completely crushed," declared Dr. Reznick. "I'm worried he's punctured a lung."/span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1""Good work, Dr Reznick - get him cleaned up and over to imaging," Melendez nodded. /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1"Without even so much as a glance in Claire's direction, the surgeon followed Morgan and the patient down the hall. /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1"***/span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1"Claire was on suction, while the team repaired the patient's ankle. /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1"Melendez hadn't said a word to her (other than "suction") in the six hours they'd been on shift. She didn't think he'd even looked her in the eye. /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1"So when the clock turned to 9pm and the other residents had gone home, she wandered up to Melendez's office, walking through the door without knocking. /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1""We had sex, right?" She said. /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1""Excuse me?" /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1""You and me, last night, at my house. You were going to drop me home, you came in, you told me you thought our friendship was more than that - and then you kissed me," she spelled out. /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1""Claire, not here -."/span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1""We did have sex, did we not?"/span/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1"He stood up from his desk and stepped towards her, looking around the floor to make sure no one was in any of the joining offices. /span/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1""Yes, Claire, we did have sex," he said quietly./span/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1"She sat on the back of the couch as he walked towards her. /span/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1""Do you wish we hadn't? Is that why you couldn't even look at me today? Why you put me on suction, for a simple broken ankle I could have done myself in my sleep?"/span/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1"He touched her arm, but quickly pulled back, shoving both hands in his pockets and looking at the floor./span/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1""No, I don't wish we didn't have sex. I'm... I'm really glad we did." /span/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1"He half smiled at her, but she stared at him, blank./span/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1""I just knew that if I even so much as looked at you, in front of the others, I'd blush like a school kid and want to kiss you right then and there."/span/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1"Her cheeks had gone red and she looked at him smiling. /span/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1""You could have at least texted me, or something. Told me you weren't really ignoring me."/span/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1""Yeah? And how obvious would that have been? God forbid Morgan, or Shaun for that matter, saw your phone."/span/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1"He was right. He had to make her mad at him all day, other wise their cover would most definitely have been blown. They were already under a microscope, but now they really did have something to hide. /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1"It took all her self control not to kiss him there in his office. Wearing the same white shirt he'd worn yesterday, because despite setting an early enough alarm, he wasn't left with enough time to go home before work. /span/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1""You're right, I know," she conceded. "It just sucks."/span/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1""It does. And it's going to be even worse now. There's no denying I have favourites after last night."/span/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1""And this morning," Claire smirked. /span/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; color: #dcdcdc; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1""Yes. And this morning... It's late Dr. Browne, why don't I take you home?"br /span/p
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