LUCIEN

Nirelle had a lot of emotional baggage. I think that for a case like hers, we might be uncovering a lot of things, but one thing she had been able to master that I could not was hiding it pretty well. She bent her head slightly to the side and smiled at me. Was she supposed to be smiling? Did people in pain smile? I could tell that she was injured, but seeing how she had objected to having sex, I did not know how she was going to react to me if I tried to check her back.

"Where is she?"

"Probably attending to a patient who is...