Semua Bab Stripper by Night, Doctor by Deception : Bab 101 - Bab 105

RYANI sat down, staring at the document in front of me, and sighed.I don’t know why I hesitated. The truth was already written in black and white, staring me in the face like it had been there all along, just waiting for me to stop running from it. But now that it was here… right here… I wasn’t sure I wanted to face it.Did I really want to do this?Ricardo hadn’t exactly been good to me. Most of the time, I felt like an object he could move around however he pleased… a weapon when he needed one, a distraction when he didn’t. But it hadn’t always been like that.But now, none of that mattered. This wasn’t about what we were, or what we pretended to be. This was about something bigger. About the one thing that’s haunted me since the day it happened.My mother.She didn’t deserve to die the way she did. And for so long, I didn’t know who was behind it… who gave the order, who pulled the strings, who decided her life didn’t matter enough to keep.There was a time he made me feel like I

RICARDOI woke up to the rhythmic beep of machines and the faint sting of something in my arm.My eyelids were heavy, stuck like glue, but I forced them apart.The ceiling above me was white and a soft light buzzed faintly in the corner. I turned my head slowly, my muscles stiff like I hadn’t moved in days.I was in a room. Not a hospital, but it had that same quiet, antiseptic chill.A single chair sat by the wall. A toilet at the far corner. No windows. Just a bed. This bed.Tubes ran into my veins. IV drip. Monitors. My chest felt like someone had slammed it with a baseball bat. No… a bullet.I sat up with a groan. My hand flew to my chest with bandages, sticky with blood at the edges.What the hell happened?My fingers clawed at the tubing, yanking it off. The IV pulled free, warm blood trailing down my arm. I didn’t care. I needed answers.I stumbled off the bed and my legs buckled. I caught the wall, gasping.How long have I been out?There was no clock. No calendar. Nothing. Ju