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introduce his suspicions to a judge.

If word got out that there was one eyewitness, others would certainly followтАжthe D.A. could build a
case from whispers. God knew they did it all the time. And CarlottiтАЩs worst fear was doing time. When
he was thirteen, heтАЩd killed a witness to his shoplifting, just to avoid being shipped back to Juvie.

The doctor was in very real danger. Carlotti had to shut him up, the sooner the better. The psycho
wouldnтАЩt have to worry about herтАФthe D.A. was at least as interested in putting her behind bars as he
was in CarlottiтАФbut he had to worry about the doctor. He probably had men working on the problem
already.

тАЬCrap,тАЭ she sighed and got up to make the first of several cups of coffee.




CHAPTER TWO



The next night, Jared was still thinking about the woman and still mentally yelling at himself to forget
about her.YouтАЩll never see her again , he told himself, followed by,also, the whole thing was probably
a hallucination brought on by too much paperwork. Proof that spending too much time on
chartwork is bad for you. Trouble was, he couldnтАЩt get her out of his mind. Even now, when he was
supposed to be snoozing in the third floor on-call room, he was tossing and turning on the narrow bunk,
fantasizing about whatтАЩs-her-name instead of getting the sleep he needed.

HeтАЩd asked around, but no one knew of a beautiful blonde goddess who ran like a deer and punched
like a middleweight champion. Some of the nurses had suggested it was time he started dating again. One
of the orderlies told him once he got more sleep, the hallucinations would stop. That was the trouble with
being the hospital wiseassтАжwhen you had a serious problem, no one believed it.

Tap-tap.

Hell, it wasnтАЩt like he was hard up for female companionship. He worked with at least ten female docs
and three times that many nurses. Not to mention x-ray techs, the lab ladies, the social workersтАжheck,
wasnтАЩt the hospital chaplain a woman? One of the benefits of being an E.R. doc was that he got to visit
all the wards, got to meet all theтАФ

Tap-tap.

тАФstaff outside his department and he should justтАФ

Tap-tap-tap.

тАЬWhat the hellis that?тАЭ he muttered, getting up and crossing the room. He had a flashback to one of his
literature classes. тАЬWho is that tapping, tapping at my chamber door?тАЭ he boomed, pulling back the
curtain and expecting to seeтАжhe wasnтАЩt sure. A branch, rasping across the glass? A pigeon? Instead, he
found himself gazing into a face ten inches from his own. тАЬAaiiggh!тАЭ