MasukThey threw me away like I was nothing. Divorced me for my younger, prettier, fertile sister. I signed divorce papers while I suspected I was finally pregnant. Smiled while they handed me five thousand dollars and told me to disappear. I disappeared, alright. Off a cliff, Into freezing water. Nearly drowned carrying his twins. Someone wanted me dead. His family buried the investigation before my body was even cold, except there was no body. Because I survived. Ten years later, I walk back into their world as Dr. Scarlett Fox. The surgeon they're begging to save his dying mother. He doesn't recognize me until it's too late. Untill he sees my face and his entire world crumbles. Then he sees my kids, his kids. With his eyes and my fury. Now Nicholas's on his knees. Saying he spent a decade in hell thinking he killed me. Saying he's changed. But someone in his family is guilty, and as I dig deeper, people start watching. The man who saved me, Spencer, wants me to stop. He says it's too dangerous. That I should choose him, let the past stay buried. But I didn't survive murder just to run back scared. I'm Dr. Scarlett Fox now. Elite surgeon. Single mother. And I'm about to perform the most important operation of my life. Cutting out the cancer in the Cruz family. Even if it kills me this time.
Lihat lebih banyakNicholas's POV The contractors arrived at ten.Three of them, two of which I recognized from the Singapore meetings, Weston, the project lead, quiet and efficient, and beside him a financial analyst whose name I'd never gotten because he mostly existed to confirm numbers Weston had already given. The third man I didn't recognize.He was introduced as Carson.He was yhe external consultant, My father said,brought in to manage the revised timeline.I shook his hand and sat down and wrote the name at the top of my notepad.The meeting started the way these meetings always started. Weston with his presentation, the Singapore project timeline on the screen, the revised completion dates and the budget adjustments and the reasons for both. I'd sat through variations of this meeting a dozen times. I knew the rhythm of it. I knew when to ask questions and when My father wanted me to stay quiet and absorb.Today I was asking questions, not aggressive ones, not the kind that made anyone look up
Scarlett's POV Lauren and I walked past my office, past the nursing station, all the way to the small break room at the end of the surgical corridor that nobody used before eight. She pushed the door open and checked it was empty and let it close behind us."There's a complaint," she said.I looked at her. "What kind?""Board level. Filed Friday evening." She crossed her arms. "It's informal for now, which means it hasn't triggered a formal review yet.""Which case is it?" I asked."The Smith's case." She held my gaze. "That happened six weeks ago."I was quiet for a moment. "What specifically is the complain about.""It's about the approach you used in hour three when the pressure dropped." She paused. "Whoever wrote it knows surgery, Scarlett. This isn't a patient complaint. This isn't someone's family member upset about bedside manner. Someone who understands what happens in an OR wrote this."I looked at the coffee machine."Walden," I said."His name isn't on it," Lauren said im
Calista's POV I chose the restaurant carefully.Somewhere either of us would be recognized immediately, but not somewhere that would make him feel like he was being hidden. Men like Walden needed to feel like they were being taken seriously. A private booth at Austen's on the west side, which was quiet, with good lighting.I arrived first like I always do at important meetings.He came in at seven on the dot, which told he was a man who resented being kept waiting would never make someone else wait. He was tall, good looking in the way that had probably served him well for most of his life, wearing the kind of suit that was expensive enough to be noticeable and recent enough to be deliberate. He scanned the room when he walked in and found me before the host could direct him.He had a confident walk and he'd dressed up for this.I stood and extended my hand. "Dr. Walden. Thank you for coming.""Ms. Lancaster." He shook it with a firm grip, held a half second too long. "I'll be honest
Calista's POV His assistant tried to stop me at the door."Ms. Lancaster, he's in a meeting...""He'll see me." I smiled at her the way I smiled at people whose job it was to be in my way. "Tell him I'm here."She picked up the phone, said my name into it. A pause, then she set it down and looked at me with the expression of someone delivering news they didn't want to."He said you can go in."I smoothed my jacket and opened the door.Nicholas was at his desk with his sleeves rolled up and a file open in front of him. He looked up when I came in."You look exhausted," I said and sat across from him. "When did you last sleep properly?""What do you need?" He closed the file."I was in the building." I crossed my legs, settled back. "I thought I'd check in. We haven't talked since the dinner.""We talked at the dinner." His voice was flat."Nicholas." I looked at him. "That wasn't talking." I tilted my head. "I'm trying to have an actual conversation with you."He looked at me for a mo
Nicholas's POV I drove home from the hospital with both hands on the wheel and nothing working correctly inside my chest.She was alive.Katrina Lancaster, or Scarlett Fox as she insisted, had spent eight hours with her hands inside my mother's chest this morning and saved her and looked at me in
Nicholas's POV I walked towards them before I could stop myself.Aiden saw me first and his face brighten instantly, He said something to Katrina and pointed directly at me.I watched her go still.She turned slowly and her eyes found mine across the cafeteria and whatever she saw in my face told
Scarlett's POV Eight hours with your hands inside someone's chest teaches you things about yourself that therapy never could.I stood at the scrub sink and turned the water as hot as it went and watched it run pink down the drain and thought about the moment, the specific moment around hour five w
Nicholas's POV Abigail knocked twice.I was mid-sentnce on a call when she came through the door. I held up one finger but she shook her head once, which meant whatever she was about to say couldn't wait for whatever I was currently doing. I ended the call."It's your mother," she said. "She's at






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