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life.
    It was too late.
    “Sam!” Kaylee, the ER receptionist, came around the corner of the counter. “What’s going on?” His arm was around Danika, who was holding her hand against her stomach, the ice pack back in place.
    “We need some x-rays.”
    “Come on back.” Kaylee started for a treatment room.
    “We can wait,” Danika protested, glancing at the two other people in the waiting room.
    “No, we can’t.” He didn’t want Danika sitting and waiting, with her wrist hurting, her hand swelling.
    At least this was one thing he could do for her—get her into the damned ER without waiting.
    “Sam, there are—”
    “It’s fine,” Kaylee said.
    “No, they were here first.”
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    “But you’re here with Sam,” Kaylee said with a wink. “That’s like showing up with the President.”
    “I’m not that hurt,” Danika tried again.
    “Kaylee.” Sam squeezed Danika’s shoulder. “What are they here for?” He gestured toward the others in the waiting room.
    “One’s waiting for his dad who’s back on the heart monitor, the other one is complaining of stomach pain.”
    “Get that guy in,” Sam said. He knew he should mean it, but for him no one came before Danika.
    Still, it would make her happy and she wasn’t dying. “Then us.”
    “Dr. Larson is on his way,” Kaylee said. “And the guy won’t see anyone else.” Sam looked down at Danika. “No reason to wait.”
    “Fine.” She let him guide her down the hall to the second exam room.
    Danika slid up onto the exam table with one hand. “Like being with the President, huh?” He shrugged. “I bring the front desk staff bagels on Tuesdays.”
    “Kissing up?”
    “At first.” He grinned. “But now it’s because I like them.” He was thinking about finding a reason to sneak out before the on-call physician came in. It didn’t matter who it was, he knew them all, and they would all be sure that everyone else knew about this fiasco.
    “Hey, Sam.” Lisa, another of the ER clerks, poked her head into the room. “Kaylee said you were here. Tommie’s here. He wants to talk to you.”
    It was the perfect excuse to get out of seeing Danika’s doctor. “What the heck?”
    “Room two,” Lisa said.
    “Of course.” Tommie had a thing for even numbers and had an aversion to the number four.
    “The nurses are willing to all pitch money in for beer if you give him a shower.”
    “He was just here last week. He can’t smell that bad.”
    “But he’ll be back next week and if you shower him today it will save all our noses then.”
    “You realize you’re talking about me getting a man in a shower.” Lisa rolled her eyes. “I’m aware.”
    “Now if the nurses were willing to all pitch in and get in with us…”
    “The shower stall isn’t that big, Sam.”
    “Your loss.”
    “I’m not a nurse.”
    “You’re still invited.”
    “Thanks, but my fiancé might protest.” She rolled her eyes again, but was smiling.
    “In that case, I’ll talk to Tommie about wet wipes and deodorant.” Sam shrugged and tried to look apologetic. Even though he knew Lisa wasn’t buying it. “Best I can do.”

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    “You’re a prince,” Lisa said just before the door bumped shut behind her.
    He was chuckling as he dug in his pocket for the seventy-five cents he needed for the vending machine. He glanced at Danika, who was watching him. Oops. The comment about the shower with the nurses had been a joke, but probably not appropriate in front of the woman he was on a kind-of date with.
    “What?”
    “You’re amazing.”
    “Thanks. Why?”
    “The sex shop with me and now you’re inviting multiple women to shower with you.” He shrugged, now feeling bad. “I was kidding around. I don’t date, or sleep with, the women in the ER. Too uncomfortable after things end.”
    “Got it.” She didn’t look annoyed or jealous…or in that much pain. Maybe