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wishing for a guy that might not ever come.
    No. She couldn’t in good conscience let this relationship go any further. Staying somewhere she honestly wasn’t happy wouldn’t be fair to Adonis. He openly wanted more than she could give him at this point in her busy life.
    Perhaps it was time for her to take a step back; Emerald realized she might have a bitter pill to swallow. In spite of that, she had to be true to herself and lately she was beginning to feel like she was putting on a show for Adonis, showing up for the dates with him and going through the motions, but not really feeling anything when she looked into his eyes across the restaurant table. So why not do it now instead of later?
    For now her career might be the driving force in her life but she didn’t think she would be actually this upset about not having someone to go home to like Shauntie and Sapphire.
    But one thing was for sure, Emerald wasn’t ever about to confess anything to either one of them. They were like sisters to her, but sometimes neither one of them knew how to leave well enough alone.
    Shauntie wouldn’t be happy with her being alone and spending most of her days and nights working. Not now, that she was so in love with Nash and planning a huge wedding. Her oldest friend believed everyone including herself should have a huge diamond ring on their finger.
    Emerald wasn’t saying that she was against falling on love, but she still craved the attention of an attractive male. She wouldn’t allow the fear of going back to the single status to keep her from moving ahead and improving herself.
    She had never been the type of woman to keep anyone in a state of limbo and she wouldn’t place Adonis in a place she didn’t want to be herself. How was she supposed to meet her ‘Mr. Perfect’ if she was still stuck in her failing relationship with the current guy in her life? Adonis truly hadn’t made it to boyfriend status in her mind.
    The ring of the elevator drew Emerald from her thoughts about her man search. Pulling her dress down further, she brushed a flyaway strand of hair away from her eye as the elevator’s doors opened.
    She couldn’t think about anything else tonight but doing a good job at work. Emerald wasn’t going to allow the drama going on in her personal life to filter over into her professional work ethic. She loved being an assistant medical examiner and she wasn’t going to lose her job over her mind being someplace else...namely on the lack of a man in her life.
    Walking off the elevator, Emerald headed for where Dr. David was waiting for her at the end of the hallway. He didn’t tell her a lot on the phone when he called her, so she had prepared herself for anything.
    Pausing in front of the closed door, she got herself under control before pushing the door open and walking inside. Instantly, Emerald spotted Dr. David towards the back of the room standing over a body. She placed her purse down on the table by the door and then grabbed her lab coat off the coat rack by the wall.
    “Good evening, Dr. David,” she said, making her way over to him. “I apologize for taking so long to get here. I wasn’t in this part of town.”
    Moving in front of him, Emerald glanced down at the body of a young male who didn’t look older than sixteen years old. She always hated seeing a young person on the table. “Do we know who he is yet?” she asked as her boss looked up at her.
    His dark blue eyes studied her for a few minutes and then glanced at her outfit. “That’s a nice dress you are wearing,” he said then went back to work on the body. “I hope my phone call didn’t take you away from anything important.”
    Emerald quickly buttoned up her lab coat silently scolding herself for not doing it sooner.
    “No sir. I was just on my way to a friend’s house to help her plan her wedding. She understood why I had to cancel. Do you know who he is?” Emerald asked again, trying to get her boss’s attention back on the