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Chapter 25

Author: Lois
last update publish date: 2026-04-01 02:56:14

Nicole's POV

Tracy's first proper consultation session ran for ninety minutes, and I spent all of it at the back of the room with my clipboard, present enough to be useful and invisible enough not to matter.

Marlon led the session with the calm authority he brought to everything. Tracy answered questions for the first twenty minutes and spent the next seventy demanding to meet Dr. Carter personally.

"She has reviewed your preliminary scans and she will be present when the protocol clinically re
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