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Only For You

Author: Ali Parker
last update Last Updated: 2023-10-15 02:04:04

Raina

I rubbed a smear of blood off my wrist and sighed. Ugh.

This had been a whole lot harder than I had thought it would be. Work had been pretty mellow right up until the last half hour. Then someone had brought in their dog, who’d been hit by a car and broken his leg.

I’d had to set the fracture and get this poor thing all calmed down and dosed up so that he wasn’t freaking out too badly. I was covered in blood, and all I wanted in the world was to go home, have a hot shower, and clean myself up.

But instead, of course, I had to go and get myself ready for my darn date. I couldn’t believe that I hadn’t found some way to wriggle out of this since Reed had announced that he had set it up in the first place. I had credited myself with more in the way of guts than that, but I figured this was the only way that I was going to get my brother off my back so I could get back to work again.

“You’ve deleted the dating profile thing, haven’t you?” I asked over our coffees the day after he’d
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