Night had fallen by the time Cael finally left the medical center. With Doc May’s help she’d been over every inch of Keir’s code looking for where it had been altered. She’d made extensive notes and then deleted everything that had been done to him.
Even though he was gone, she couldn’t just leave him like that. It didn’t feel right. So she’d spent extra time working on the code while May had cleaned up his body, offering silent support as the other woman grieved.
They’d left the clinic together, Cael making sure to keep up a light chatter that didn’t require any sort of reply as they walked back to May’s pod. She was so locked in her own thoughts, the Taurus didn’t even realize that Cael’s pod was the other side of the residential area.
She waited, lurking outside for a moment until sh
