CLAIRE~ The doorknob turned just then.I shoved the phone into my jeans pocket so fast the edge of the case scraped my thumb. My palm smoothed the fabric twice like that would erase the message still burning behind my eyes. Tyler’s words sat in my chest like swallowed glass. Packless. Surprise. Inter-Alpha meeting. Heat. I didn’t have time to fall apart. Not here. Not with Connor walking back through the door.He stepped in and shut it behind him. The cold air moved with him as his eyes went straight to the open file in my hands.“You done going through that?”“No.”His frown was immediate, small but sharp. The same look he got when something didn’t line up the way he expected. I forced my eyes back down to the pages even though my heart was still slamming against my ribs from the text. The typed lines swam for a second before they settled.Severe Crohn’s disease. Recurrent surgical complications. Multiple admissions. The language was clinical and dry, the kind of notes that tried t
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