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She sighed heavily, and he dared not look her way for fear shetoo This was getting ridiculous Already, he was having unacceptable thoughts and visions of things that were coency rooht up to the entrance "Stay here," he said as he rushed in

He was able to quickly acquire a wheelchair and brought it out then helped her out of the cart Trying not to put too htly she wrapped her arhtly He did, however, allow hiain As he lowered her onto the seat, he glanced up just as she loosened her hold on hih to taste those lips She stared at him for a moment as he stood there bent over, unbelievably tempted at that most inopportuneaway

She nodded, continuing to hold his gaze

He sed hard because this was so unlike hiretting this Finally he olf cart, he ca her inside the eency room As much as he knew he should take her up on her offer to call someone else, he wasn’t ready to leave her side just yet Daretted having inal drill instructor last weekend Brandon hated to adeant Taft held a special place in his heart Taft had been the one who straightened Brandon’s ass out in the first place As far as Brandon was concerned, Taft was the reason why he hadn’t dropped out those first few punishing weeks of boot ca so on more than one occasion He was also Brandon’s inspiration and why he’d become a drill instructor in the first place For those reasons, he kept the man at bay It’d be too easy to start to feel an emotional attachment to this friend Brandon didn’t make emotional attachments He made no exceptions But when Taft heard Brandon would be in California, he invited hi too duty-bound to a ht of getting too close scared the hell out of hieant and his wife had been so pleasant and welco They even insisted now that Brandon was based in California he visithiretted the visit the moment he’d walked out of their hoht by to, possibly even sooner So why the hell wasn’t he walking away yet?

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"Just wheel her over behind that second curtain on your right" The nurse pointed as Brandon started wheeling her in that direction "There’ll be someone in there to take all her information in a few minutes You can help your wife onto the bed The doctor will be with her shortly after they’ve taken her vitals"

She walked away before either of the Brandon and Ms Brady exchanged glances as her cheeks shaded with slight color

Without a word, Brandon continued to wheel her over to the bed the nurse had pointed to When they reached it, Ms Brady atte the end of the bed and the ar her ar on to hih for her, so he lifted her by the waist Again their faces came just inches froht in another staring contest, so the man held a clipboard and smiled broadly then pulled a pen out of his front pocket "Good evening" He spoke quickly, holding the clipboard in front of hiht?"

"It’s Ms" She corrected hiina"

Rob looked up at her then at Brandon, his eyebrows furrowing "Oh, I’ina" He looked back down on his clipboard and wrote so "The nurse out front said you were here with your husband"

Ms Brady glanced at Brandon, her poignant eyes looking even more innocent as he sa she tried to hide the pain she was feeling She quickly brought her attention back to Rob "No, um" She winced now, unable to hide it anyauess she just assuether for a s We work in the sa where I fell He was there when it happened and was kind enough to help get me here"

Rob and Brandon’s eyes met for a second before Rob turned back to Ms Brady "Ah, I see Okay, well, now that we got that straight, I need to get a little more information from you before we start with your vitals" He looked down at her ankle "Yep, that’s pretty swollen It et her so firsthand how long this could take

"I can," Rob said, his brow lifting without looking up, "but I need to get some info from her first"

Brandon looked down at Rob’s ID Corporal Robert Lansing--ER The fact that this young corporal hadn’t referred to hih to piss Brandon off He’d never tolerated that kind of disrespect, but the fact that the assle didn’t even bother to look at hi tone was more than Brandon would tolerate