hapter 0413


    “Oh! Zade, this is Doctor Cassian Owen. Doctor, this is my boyfriend, Zade.‘


    “Oh, nice to meet you, Zade,” he says, almost as if he’s something better than me and holds his hand


    out to me. I nce down at it before looking down at Valerie. “A little busy?” I remark, wrapping my


    arms around Valerie tighter. I don’t n to return his handshake, not until I figure out his intentions. His


    background didn’t stand out,es from a small family, working parents, and no siblings… but what


    did stand out was there was no image in his file… just his information. Cassian forces a smile. “Well,


    it’s… definitely good to have met you… Well, I won’t take any more of your time. I’ll call you, Valerie.”


    He gives her a smile before he turns away and I ce my arm around Valerie’s.


    “Shall we get home?” I ask.


    “Yes, I’m starved. I think I’m up for cooking tonight,” she says.


    “I’m not very good at cooking, so I won’t be able to help you,” I add, I can only. do pretty much basics or


    hot drinks. We reach my bike and I lift her on. “You’re sitting up front today.”


    “Really?” She looks a little excited and nervous as she puts her helmet on and I get on behind her.


    “Also, I don’t need help with the cooking, I can manage. I just need to unwind a little.”


    Unwind… I feel guilty for what I’m about to ask her, but someone needs her help.


    Revving the engine, we ride out of the hospital parking lot. “Before we do all that, there’s someone who


    needs medical attention, I was wondering if you were willing to have a look at them?”


    “Oh, it’s someone you know?” she asks curiously.


    “Two previous members of the Sable, well the younger one wasn’t really considered a member yet. ));Têxt belongs to N?velDrama.Org.


    “Oh, what’s happened to them?” she asks.


    “I’m not sure, Adriana, the elder one, got me some information I needed and then told me her sister


    was not well. She needed money for treatment yet struggled to find someone who would treat them as


    they aren’t chipped,” I exin. “Per the newws.”


    “Oh, I see. Did she say what’s wrong at all?” Valerie asks seriously.


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    “No.”


    “Ok, we need to stop at home then, I want to get my supplies as we don’t know what we might need,”


    she exins.


    “Sure… and thanks. I know you have been working all day.”


    “Don’t thank me. I’m a doctor. It’s my duty to help people,” she replies.


    I look down at her as she sits before me, before focusing back on the road. “This is a field you are


    fucking confident in, and fucking good at. This is the kind of confidence and control I want to see in you


    when you’re on the battlefield or in training,” I say quietly.


    “Being a doctor is in my blood, like I can take control of the situation,” she


    murmurs.


    “Well… when I’m done with you, being a deadly alpha queen on the battlefield will not only be in your


    blood, but it will also be yourplete personification. Rest assured.‘


    Her heart skips a beat as she leans back against me, nodding.


    “I don’t doubt you…”


    “Good, I don’t go back on my words….” I murmur, and I don’t n to… I will do as promised…. “So how


    was work?”


    She begins telling me what she did today and I listen.


    It’s peaceful, pleasant… just the two of us doing something so mundane as travelling home after an


    evening of work. The sound of her voice isforting and soothing.


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