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Lady Blair snapped her medical bag shut with a crisp, definitive click. The afternoon sun streamed into Eric's bedroom at the Carson mansion, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air and lending a warm, peaceful glow to the room.
"I'm surprised, Eric," Blair said, looking at him with a professional but genuinely pleased expression. She was a sharp, intelligent woman, whose calm demeanor hid a keen and observant mind. "You are doing much better now. Your sleep has improved, your moods are stable. Or is it just because it hasn't rained lately?" she asked, a teasing glint in her eye.
Eric was sitting on the edge of his bed, where she had been conducting her assessment. He smiled, a soft, genuine smile that had become much more frequent in recent weeks. "It's because I have someone who, when it does rain, drags me out into it and holds me tight until I stop feeling the dread," he replied, his voice full of a quiet love. He could hear the faint, happy sound of Delia's laughter drifting up from the drawing room below, where she was entertaining his mother and grandmother.
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