Julian's phone rang at seven in the morning. I was still half tangled in his sheets, one eye open, when he answered on the second ring.
"Dr. Aldous." He sat up, bare shoulders catching the grey window light. "Tell me you found something."
I sat up too, pulling the blanket around me, watching his face for a clue.
"Say that again," Julian said.
A pause. His hand tightened around the phone.
"You're sure it wasn't filled here." Another pause. "No… no, that's not a problem. That's exactly what I needed."
He hung up. Sat there a second, staring at the wall like it owed him something.
"Julian."
"The prescription never came through his pharmacy." He turned to me, eyes sharp now, all the exhaustion from last night burned off. "Someone called it in under your name, but it was picked up somew
