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“You"re not even trying, Alexis.”
She closed her eyes and tried to ignore the voice. It wasn"t so much that she wasn"t trying; it was more that she was trying something different than what he had demanded. Wriggling against her restraints, she re-focused and tried again.
The problem, as she saw it, was that it was impossible to concentrate with him and the doctor, not to mention the goons in the observation room watching her like she might suddenly explode. Considering the experimentation they"d done on her, it was at least as possible as anything else.
The fact that he didn"t react to any of those thoughts meant that at least she"d been successful in building a wall he couldn"t get around, and it was well enough camouflaged that he didn"t even seem to know it was there.
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