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“Don’t you though?”

Before Danny could respond, his attention was caught by muted yelling coming down the hall, from the direction of the ambulance bay.

The trauma patient had arrived. The young man with significant blood loss.

A sudden thought occurred to Danny. He turned his eyes back to Lucien’s. “Your work?”

The vampire gave Danny his first real smile, as far as Danny could tell. Not exactly a warm one but not mocking.

He really was devastatingly handsome, for a psychopathic monster.

“I’ll be seeing you around, Daniel.” He winked.

And then he was gone. Faster than Danny’s eyes could even process.

After Danny had taken a few moments to tear himself from the stupor his strange meeting with Lucien had left him in, he ran down the hall to help with their new patient.

A patient that was possibly hurt because of Danny—because Danny’s boyfriend was in Hyde Park, and that boyfriend’s stalker was a literal monster.

The young man was covered in blood from the neck down, but his face was clear enough.

He could have been Danny’s twin.

The TV in the background was set on some reality show or another, but Danny kept his eyes on the phone in his lap. He was waiting in the staff break room for Roman to pick him up. He wasn’t feeling brave enough to wait outside on his own, knowing Lucien could be around. He was feeling decidedly unbrave, as a matter of fact.

And possibly a bit shell-shocked.

Danny’s doppelgänger hadn’t made it. The man’s heart had stopped despite the rapid blood transfusion they had started, and after a full half hour of CPR, the trauma doctor had called it. The mood at work had been somber after that.

Although, not quite as somber as it could have been. Because the staff had all heard something about the man from the police officers that had followed the ambulance. Something that had gotten Danny thinking…

His phone dinged, interrupting his thoughts. Roman had arrived.

Danny hadn’t told Roman the reason he was waiting inside—hadn’t told him about Lucien’s visit yet. He’d been worried his vampire would barge into the hospital before Danny’s shift was over and drag him away—possibly lock him in some panic room somewhere.

Still, Danny wasn’t planning to keep it secret for long. He just wanted to be there in person to calm Roman down.

The vampire in question was outside, holding the door to the passenger seat open. Such a freaking gentleman, that one.

Danny gave him a hello and a quick kiss on the cheek and got into the car. Roman didn’t immediately start the engine after rounding the car and settling in the driver’s seat. Instead, he leaned over and kissed Danny thoroughly, leaving him breathless. He then proceeded to press additional kisses along Danny’s jaw and down his neck. “I’ve missed you, little king.”

Danny gave a half laugh even as his cock twitched in his scrubs, tilting his head back to give Roman better access. “It’s only been twelve hours.”

“Mm. Twelve long hours,” Roman murmured, tugging the collar of Danny’s scrubs down to lick and nip his way along Danny’s collarbone. “Did you not miss me as well?”

The truth was Dannyhad, but that was a truth he might be afraid to admit even to himself, let alone to Roman.

How ridiculous was it to miss a man he’d only just met after twelve measly hours, fated mates or not?

He was feeling raw and anxious and overwhelmed. This couldn’t last, could it? How would Danny cope when Roman walked away and left him to his boring, lonely life?

Would you turn for him?Luc’s words echoed in Danny’s mind. Would he?

But Roman hadn’t asked him to, had very carefully not brought it up, even after discussing his past with Lucien and the woman Lucien had thought was his mate. The woman Lucien had desperately wanted to turn.

And now Danny was feeling jealous of a dead woman.

Roman noticed his sudden tenseness. “What’s wrong, mon petit roi?”

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