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A Debt Called Love Chapter 10
A year later, I finished the first phase of my aid assignment.Emily gave me two options. I could stay home and return to my old job, or move to a neighboring country to help build a lasting emergency response program for infectious diseases affecting mothers and children.The second job would keep me out of the conflict zone, but I would be abroad for at least three years. I didn't decide right away.While I was home for a checkup, I went back to the familiar hospital. The lobby screens were showing a news report about the city's biggest medical scandal.Melissa's cosmetic clinic administered illegally high doses of controlled anesthetics, sending three clients into shock and leaving them brain-dead. At trial, Emmett enforced his version of fairness as ruthlessly as ever. He hired top attorneys to protect the foundation from liability, then filed his own lawsuit against Melissa. The woman he once rushed to comfort over a minor scrape received a ten-year prison sentence and f
A Debt Called Love Chapter 9
Four months later, I came home to finalize the divorce.Emmett arrived half an hour early. He sat outside the hearing room with two neatly organized folders on his lap.When he saw me, he stood and started toward me, then stopped a few feet away. "Have you recovered?""Yes."He nodded and left it at that.When the judge asked us to confirm that we wanted to end the marriage, Emmett agreed. He raised no objections and didn't use my health, my work in a conflict zone, or the property settlement to ask for more time.The judge signed the decree, and we each received a copy. After seven years of marriage, we walked away with a few sheets of paper.A light rain fell as we left the courthouse. Emmett opened his umbrella and instinctively held it over me.When I didn't move under it, he lowered it."Katie, can I have five minutes?"I checked the time. "You can say what you need to say here."He handed me the hospital's investigation report. Shaw Enterprises lost long-term partner
A Debt Called Love Chapter 8
Two months later, Emmett showed up at the border logistics base.He looked much thinner than the last time I saw him. His sleeves were rolled up to his elbows, and he wasn't even wearing his watch.The base director told me Shaw Enterprises donated a shipment of equipment for safely transporting infectious patients. Emmett insisted that the aid organization handle all approvals and that the company receive no publicity or credit.He waited for me in the reception area and asked for ten minutes."Is the equipment supposed to make up for what you did?" I asked as I sat across from him."No." He slid the donation paperwork toward me. "I still owe you for that. This donation is separate."For once, he wasn't treating something he did as a credit against what he owed me."The hospital investigation is over," he continued. "I lost my seat on the special-services board, and I'm barred from decisions about medical donations for three years."They also corrected the records for the dive
A Debt Called Love Chapter 7
During my third week in Meridian Military District, a local pregnant woman came into the temporary aid station with a high fever from an infection. She clutched my wrist and kept asking if her baby still had a heartbeat.When the monitor picked up a faint but steady heartbeat, she burst into tears. I stood beside her bed, my hands shaking. The sound took me back to the silence in the operating room. I stumbled out of the tent and doubled over, bracing my hands on my knees as I dry-heaved.Before, I would've pushed through just to prove I wasn't afraid to die. This time, I finally admitted that saving lives wasn't my only reason for coming here.Part of me wanted to punish Emmett. Another part wanted to punish the woman who spent seven years loving him.But choosing to live didn't mean forgiving anyone.The documents from my lawyer arrived that same day. The divorce was nearly final, and the attachments included an old ledger Emmett submitted voluntarily.Since college, he kep
A Debt Called Love Chapter 6
The next morning, I wheeled my suitcase into the airport. I was weaker than I expected.At bag check, I felt a sudden gush of blood. I gripped the counter as the color drained from my face.An airline employee offered to call an ambulance, but I shook my head and took medication to control the bleeding out of my travel kit. Before, I would've called Emmett first. I even opened our chat. His messages filled the screen.[The hospital confirmed everything. Those weren't normal contractions. You were showing signs of placental abruption.[I've given up my authority to reallocate supplies. I'm cooperating with the hospital's investigation.[Katie, at least let me take you there.]My finger hovered over the message box. Each wave of pain felt worse than the last, and I wanted to ask him which medication I could take on an empty stomach.He had taken care of me so many times. He could always tell when I was in pain and what kind it was.In the end, I closed the chat and called our t
A Debt Called Love Chapter 5
Emmett snatched up the papers at his feet. His eyes stopped at the time."One in the morning? So you weren't throwing a tantrum that night. You were..."I met his eyes. "You're so proud of always paying your debts. It makes me sick."He stumbled toward me, his gaze dropping from the form to the hand I held over my abdomen. Panic spread across his face."Is that why you applied to Meridian? You're not going there to work. You're going there to die?"I couldn't be bothered to explain. "That's my business."He lost what little composure he had left. "You just lost our baby. You can barely stand. I'm not letting you go."He used to look at me that way whenever I hurt, as if he could somehow take the pain away just by watching me. He stripped off his suit jacket and tried to wrap it around my shoulders.I stepped aside. The jacket caught on the back of a chair, then slipped to the carpet. His hand hung in the air."Pick any major project in the country," he said. "I'll get you on i
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