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Nathan woke with a start when the door of his office banged open, and he grabbed hurriedly for his desk to keep from sliding off his chair and onto the floor. He hadn’t intended to doze off when he went into his office, the plan had been for him to go through the case files to see if there was anything that had been missed. The two stacks of files, one read and the other unread, showed that he had made it about a quarter of the way through before sleep won out over the desire to work.
It was ironic, he thought as he straightened himself up, that when he wanted to sleep - pretty much any time in the past three months - it was the last thing he had been able to do. Now, though, when he wanted to stay awake, so he could think and work on the case, and most importantly try to figure out w
