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“Hard to believe, but it was a coincidence. We both had our code names long before the first op we worked together.”
“How long ago was that?”
He held up one finger when his phone vibrated. “I need to take this.” He stood and walked out of the room.
I had so many questions. He said we had our code names before we worked together. Did we work for the same company?
The door opened, and instead of Smoke, a different nurse came in. I rested my head and closed my eyes when, like the other, she checked my blood pressure. I looked up at her when I felt her hand on my wrist.
“Wait, is that pain medicine?”
“It is,” she said without even looking at me.
I tried to jerk my hand away, but it wouldn’t budge. “Hang on.”
“What?” she snapped.
“Another nurse already gave me pain medicine.”
With the syringe still in hand, she picked up a piece of paper. “You’re due. Once every four hours.”
“I don’t need it.”
“Yeah, you do,” said Smoke, coming in the door. “You’re nowhere near ready to be off that stuff.”
“How do you know?”
“If you had a mirror to look into, you’d know.”
“What does that mean?”
Despite my protests, I felt the warm sensation flow through my arm and into my chest. “Fecking hell,” I groaned. “I don’t want to sleep.”
The bitch of a nurse scurried out, leaving Smoke smiling at me.
“What?”
“You’ll be back to your regular self in no time.”
If I could lift my arm, I’d have flipped him off, but I couldn’t. Maybe the pain killers they kept shooting into it made it numb. “I wonder if that’s a good thing,” I muttered.
“You need to get some sleep, and I need to eat. I’ll come back in the morning.”
“Morning? What time is it now?”
“Almost midnight.”
“You get calls on your mobile at midnight?”
“In our line of work, we get ’em twenty-four seven.”
“Okay, well, goodnight, then.”
“I’ll see you tomorrow.”
“Smoke, wait,” I said when he turned to walk out. “You aren’t going to kiss me goodnight?”
“Um…sure.” He walked closer, leaned down, and kissed my forehead.
