After taking his place at the table, he removed the recyclable plastic lid from the cardboard tray holding the chicken wrap he'd purchased, his eyes following the conversation. When Annie off-handed mentioned Aiden's mistreatment from, Jude assumed, other coworkers, his brow ruffled momentarily until Annie's eyes glanced back to him with a question. He'd placed his wrap down as he turned back to Aiden, going back to what Annie said for a moment. "Your face was drawn on while you slept? Did the head of your laboratory address that with your coworkers?" His tone was even, expression not revealing anything that he felt inside. That sort of behavior at their hospital was always come down hard upon because the professional reputation. Being the head of a department wasn't given to just anyone, and those leaders had always been selected just as much due to their dedication and diligence in keeping their underlings in line as their field capabilities.