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Chapter 9

Penulis: Diti Koshy
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[Damon]

“What the hell do you think you’re doing?” The words fly out before I can stop them. “being this close to some stranger?”

The moment I saw her standing that near to the man in scrubs, something in my chest burned. My hands clenched, my jaw locked.

I don’t even know what got into me. She was just talking to him. But for some reason, that little distance between them—which, thinking about it now, wasn’t even that small—made me completely lose it.

“We were just talking,” she says, her tone calm—too calm. It throws me off.

Before this, every time I accused her of something, she’d rush to defend herself, desperate to make me understand. But now, for the first time, she acts like it doesn’t matter.

She turns to the man. “Thanks for earlier.”

He nods, then glances at me with a look that practically screams murder. Before I can say anything, he turns and walks inside the OR.

No. Why the hell would he look at me like that? Like I’d offended him somehow. And even if I did—who would dare?
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