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Chapter One

Samantha

It’s late at the end of rab a coffee As an on-call nurse, my shifts can be pretty hectic And today is no different The only annoying part is the coffee machine in the break room is on the fritz So I have to come down to the lobby and use the machine here

I choose a cappuccino with extra sugar when out of nowhere somebody screams behind me What the…?

My coffee spills all over the floor Angry, I turn around, expecting it to be so in hospital waiting rooain

But when I see, I scream, too

The man must be around six foot five with salt and pepper stubble covering his strong jaw His navy blue suit screa his i down to his tree trunk of a waist And I guess the shirt must’ve been white once, but now it’s covered in blood

My eyes skate over the quickly expanding spot of blood on what’s clearly a very expensive, and likely custo me to visually assess his injury…but a er a little too long on his thick chest, square cut jaw, and piercing eyes

He lih his teeth

“Sir!” I exclai forward I look over to the receptionist “Get a doctor, now!”

The receptionist nods and I grab thehim to sit down My touch confirms what my eyes already told me He’s insanely th pressing through the fabric of his clothes It’s like lightning strikes ht down to oosebuhter I have to remember I’s, things Iboulder-like ering touch

“It looks worse than it is,” he snarls “Believe it or not, I got the better of them”

Theht, but how many were there? His accent sounds Russian That er My dad had a friend, Alexander, and I had a major crush on him In fact, he is the only person I’ve ever really crushed on I haven’t seen him in two years, but I can clearly picture reen eyes…