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me.
    Charlotte
didn’t know why that request had popped into her mind. Yes, she did, but she
didn’t expect him to actually do it. What was he a mind reader?
    A
slight hint of the metallic taste of blood remained on his lip as she opened
her mouth to him. His tongue played with hers for a few seconds before he ran
it over her lower lip.
    How
long had it been since a man had kissed her like this?
    A man had never
kissed her quite like this.
    Her
stomach did flips, and her pussy pulsed. She couldn’t help her next move. She
wrapped her arms around him, hoping he didn’t think she was going too far, but
when he pulled away quickly, she had her answer.
    “I’m
sorry,” she said, running her hand through her hair. Shit, how embarrassing was
this? Whatever made her do a thing like that?
    “It’s
me who should be sorry. I’m the one who kissed you.”
    Damn
it, she was hoping that kiss would be leading to something like being asked out
on a date.
    “I’ll
go wake my brother, and we’ll be out of your way.”
    “Make
sure you bring him back in about ten days so I can remove those sutures, okay?”
    He
nodded and was gone. She was too embarrassed to leave her office to see them
out. Charlotte turned and walked to her desk. She pulled open her desk drawer
knowing she had a plastic baggie in there. It would be perfect for safekeeping
the bloodied tissue. She pulled it out, opened it, and then reached into her
lab pocket.
    The
tissue was gone.
    Charlotte
immediately looked on the floor, got down on her hands and knees to peek under
her desk thinking she might have dropped the tissue, but it was nowhere to be
seen.
    Still
down on all fours she looked toward the door and then put her fingers on her
lips. That really had been wishful thinking about him kissing her like that.
He’d obviously done it for one reason…to pick her pocket.

 
    Chapter Three
     
    Aiden
hadn’t managed to wake Christopher—who had been actually snoring like crazy on
the clinic couch. Aiden wrapped his arm around his shoulder as they headed to
the car. Not an easy task now that the rain was pelting down. He slid him into
the passenger seat, shut the door, and then ran around to the driver’s side and
got in.
    “I
was having a nice dream until you woke me,” said Christopher yawning.
    “Yeah,
I can imagine what it was about.”
    “Definitely not a ménage a trios.”
    At
least he’d learned his lesson even if it had cost him some pain and sutures.
    “So
what did you do while I was sleeping?” He yawned again.
    “I
visited with the doctor and had to use my charm and kiss her to get this back.”
He lifted out the tissue from his jacket pocket and tossed it onto the
dashboard. “The fact that she wanted to keep it tells me she might suspect
something.”
    “I’m
sorry. This is all my fault. You always warned us
about staying out of trouble, but sometimes I just can’t.”
    “You’re
not the only one. A couple of the women in our group are trouble too.”
    “What
are we going to do about the blood she took from me?”
    “Don’t
worry. She was heading out of the clinic once we left. After I’ve dropped you off,
I’m going back there to get the vial. Hopefully, she’ll think she’s just
misplaced it.”
    ****
    Charlotte
peeked around the door of her father’s room. The TV was blaring, but instead of
watching it, he was reading one of his fishing magazines. Good thing she’d
brought along two more to replenish the stack.
    She
knocked on the side of the door and then walked in. He looked up and smiled.
    “How
are you feeling today?” She leaned over and kissed him.
    “A little bit better than yesterday.”
    “Glad
to hear that. I brought you some more magazines,” she said sitting on the bed.
    Her
dad turned down the volume in the TV. “So how was your day?”
    “Busy.
And I’m sorry I’m late, but I had a last minute emergency with a guy who’d been
stabbed.”
    She
wasn’t going to mention the bitten penis to her