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The clinic looked abandoned when Benny pulled into the rear lot, but a light came on over the back door before we had completely stopped.
The doctor stepped outside in jeans and a dark sweatshirt, medical bag already in his hand. He took one look through the open rear door at JJ across my lap and whatever greeting he might have had disappeared.
“Bring her in.”
I climbed out carefully. JJ stirred when I shifted her, a weak sound catching in her throat, and the doctor’s eyes sharpened.
“How responsive has she been?”
“In and out. She knows my name when she wakes up.”
“Both of them,” Benny muttered.
I shot him a look.
Now was not the f*****g time.
The doctor led us through the back entrance into a small imaging clinic that was obviously meant to be closed. Only the hallway light
