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about it, I won’t be able to concentrate.”
    “I’m guessing you’ve done enough of it, you can do it even when distracted.” He rolled his eyes and laughed as he pulled back, as out of reach as he could get. “We’re going to the hospital.”
    She experimentally tried to wiggle her fingers. They moved and she only frowned. Then she tried the wrist. She sucked in a sharp breath and then held it, then squeezed her eyes shut.
    “Yeah, exactly,” he said dourly, putting the car into drive. There wasn’t anything he could do for her wrist here. The sooner they got to the ER, the better.
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    Chapter Three
    “Did you put the tools away?” Danika asked a minute later. “At Natalia’s. Before we left? I don’t remember.”
    He frowned. Hell, he didn’t remember either, but he’d been so focused on Danika and getting her into the car, he doubted it. “No, I don’t think so.”
    “Did you put the cover back on the ceiling fan?”
    He frowned harder. Of course not. He hadn’t given the fan one single thought since the hem of her skirt had lifted high enough to expose the silky skin of the back of her thighs. “No.”
    “We have to go back.”
    They were five minutes from the ER. “No.”
    “Natalia’s going to get home and see all of that?” she asked. “Not only will it blow your cover but she’ll be scared that someone was in her house until she knows it was you.” He sighed. She was right.
    All in one night, three things he did very well—taking care of Natalia, seducing a beautiful woman and taking care of an injury—had gotten complicated. As soon as he’d met Danika.
    He pulled his cell phone from his back pocket and punched in Mac’s number.
    “Can you go over to Natalia’s and clean up my stuff before she gets home?” he asked, knowing that Mac would know it was him by the incoming number.
    “Why? What’s up?”
    “I had to leave…” He glanced at Danika. “Quickly. Didn’t get a chance to clean up.”
    “Why?”
    Mac didn’t exactly believe in things like privacy or people having secrets.
    “There’s something I had to take care of.”
    “Something like what?”
    It wasn’t that Mac was slow. Quite the opposite. For Sam to be giving him vague answers meant that Sam was up to something that Mac would be interested in.
    “A woman,” Sam said shortly.
    “Who?”
    “No one you know.”
    “Will I get to meet her?”

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    “How long have we known each other?” Sam asked.
    “Nine years.”
    “And in all that time, how many times have I had a woman meet my friends?”
    “On purpose or including the times that we showed up anyway?”
    “On purpose.”
    “Once,” Mac said. “No wait. We paid that little boy who lives in your apartment building to call us when you got home.”
    “Yeah,” Sam said, sarcastically. “Conner. Cute kid.”
    Mac chuckled. “Melissa had fun playing cards with us.”
    “She did.”
    “I don’t think you dated her again, did you?”
    “Nope.” Sam found it was too difficult to get his relationships mixed up. He didn’t want his friends or sisters to get to know any woman he dated. There was always the chance that they would all get along and like her. That just meant even more people to be disappointed or upset when he didn’t see her again.
    “So you’ll do it?” Sam asked.
    “Sure.”
    “Thanks, man.” Sam disconnected before Mac could ask any more questions or hear the wailing siren approaching. The last thing he needed was for his friends to find out he’d put a woman in the hospital on their first date.
    They pulled around the corner to the entrance of the ER and Sam parked in his employee spot. But it wasn’t until the doors slid open that Sam realized it was a mistake to bring Danika to the ER at St.
    Anthony’s. Mac might not have heard the sounds of the ER over the phone, but he knew the entire staff in the emergency room, and they all knew Mac. And everyone else in Sam’s