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It was all jumbled up inside her. She had tried going back to her data, but it was a low priority research project that she still had a couple days on before it was needed. It hadn’t been enough to draw her focus. Cindy had thought about going for a run…and had come to half an hour later still staring at her locked computer screen.
There was no way she could eat.
She didn’t have any really close friends on base, didn’t have any that she could call either. It was like when she found out her brother had died. No one to tell. No one to care.
Except for the man sitting across from her.
He hadn’t been hard to find. She’d just followed the tortured grunts of someone working past their limits, but not acknowledging they had any limits to begin with. Nothing ever stopped Deek. Nothing.
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