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    The nurse was already preparing to draw blood.


    Carlisle had donated blood in his previous life and knew that an anticoagnt had to be added to the blood bag to prevent the blood from congealing.


    "Oh-oh, right... The anticoagnt..."


    The nurse was flustered as she retrieved heparin off the shelves.


    After she had added the prescribed dosage ording to regtions, she sat back down.


    Carlisle noticed her breathing was shallow, and he couldn''t help asking worriedly, "Can... can you find the vein?"


    The nurse was clearly an intern.


    He was worried that she wouldn''t be able to find his vein and would just prick him blindly. "I-I can!"


    The nurse confidently got ready, but Carlisle increasingly felt that she was unreliable.


    After a while, the nurse pricked him for the third time but was still unsessful in her attempt.


    The nurse was about to cry.


    She said tearfully, "D-don''t be nervous! It must be because you''re nervous, which is causing the arteries to constrict!"


    Carlisle raised his eyebrows.


    "Do I look nervous to you?"


    The nurse pricked him twice more before she finally burst into tears.


    She had pricked him five times without getting it right even once.


    Fortunately, the hospital''s deputy director passed by, and the nurse looked like she had been thrown a lifeline. She hastily ran over and grabbed his white coat.


    Carlisle pped a hand to his forehead in exasperation.


    He thought that the hospital was too unreliable.


    The deputy director approached and said apologetically, "I''m sorry, Talia is new and is still an intern. She''s introverted and gets nervous when she sees handsome men. Whenever she''s nervous, she makes mistakes!"


    The deputy director of the hospital was clearly very diplomatic.


    Any other man would have been mollified by thepliment, but Carlisle just said


    impassively, "Hurry up and draw the blood. Stop wasting time!"


    The deputy director found the vein easily and handed the blood bag back to Talia Hornby before leaving.


    Talia tentatively shook the blood bag so the coagnt could spread evenly throughout the blood.


    She kept her head lowered, not daring to look at Carlisle.


    The deputy director was right.


    Talia had indeed gotten nervous the moment she saw Carlisle.


    She thought that he was very handsome.


    Carlisle propped his head on one hand and shut his eyes to rest.


    He had been drinking, and he felt rather dizzy.


    Talia stole a nce at him, her heart thumping madly.


    She couldn''t help admiring his handsomeness.


    She was very attracted to him.


    It was no wonder that Talia was so besotted.


    She had graduated from nursing school, where 80% of the students were women.


    There hadn''t been a single man in her sses in all of the three years she had been there.


    Three whole years!


    "Are you from the University of Science and Technology?"


    Talia mustered up the courage to strike up a conversation with him.


    Carlisle did not open his eyes as he answered impassively, "No. I''m from Rivend University."


    Talia asked, "Then... what year are you in?"


    "My first year."


    "Only your first year?"


    "What''s the matter?"


    Carlisle opened his eyes and looked at her.


    Talia hastily shook her head.


    "N-nothing... I thought you were in your second year!"


    Carlisle closed his eyes again and continued resting.


    Lily needed his blood so that she could be saved.


    He was in no mood to chat with Talia.


    Talia tactfully stopped asking any other questions.Exclusive content ? by N?(v)el/Dr/ama.Org.


    At that moment, Gareth walked over with Sean and Gillian.


    Sean''s eyes werepletely red, and he knelt down the moment he got to Carlisle.


    "Carl..."


    "Hey, what are you doing?"