All Chapters of FALLING FOR HIM: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

I pressed the call button again for the ...th time and placed the phone on my ear, pacing around the small space in the hospital room.But all I got was the damn irritating sound of the rings until the phone went dead again—yet again!How many times had I called?I had lost count, and the nervousness and the anger were driving me mad."Where the heck are you?" I murmured to myself through gritted teeth as I pulled the phone from my ear.I checked my wristwatch and sprinted out of the room and down the hospital hallway, my white coat flaring behind me as alarms blared in the background. My grip tightened on the medical chart in my hand, the edges biting into my palm while my heart raced with bubbling panic. Streams of assorted feelings surged through me—feelings that I didn’t want to entertain.I was almost running out of breath from all the sprinting when I bumped into a nurse along the hallway. I grabbed her, my feet still refusing to be planted on the shaky ground underneath. “Hey!

My chest felt too tight as my feet led me away from the humiliation and pain. I kept cursing and sucking back the tears threatening to pour out of me as I walked to where the pain and regrets dragged me. The pain was too much, too unbearable, but I kept moving as far away from the betrayal as possible.Finding myself at the parking lot, I released a considerable breath I was holding, blinking away tears. The cool air did little, or better yet, nothing at all, to calm the storms raging in me. Tears streaked my cheeks yet again as I approached the car.I needed a breather, far away from that place. Even just for a few hours, because the truth was, I didn’t want to let those cheaters weigh me down. I had already lost my man to a bitch; losing my job and myself over them was not worth it.I started fumbling with my keys, tears turning my vision into a blur.I tried to unlock the door, but luck seemed to have run away from my side that day because, for some weird reason, the key didn’t see

The drive was silent, each of us lost in our own thoughts as minutes ticked by. I could not believe that I was following a man old enough to be my father just to get fucked. That went against my morals, against what I was taught, and against what I always believed in. It defied everything I upheld as a dignified woman. But as I sat there in the car beside the man, burning in the inferno of the rage from the betrayal and the madness of what I was about to commit, none of that mattered. Nothing at all.Finally, we arrived at the man’s affluent home. I barely had time to take in the sleek, modern decor of the man’s humongous house before he jumped right on me as soon as the door clicked shut behind us.He pressed me against the door, his lips finding mine in a demanding, consuming kiss that caused me to tremble with desire and anticipation. In an instant, everything in the outside world faded—the betrayal and the pain and the shame. What mattered was the present moment as I savored the s

The air thickened, the hall growing small with every second that ticked by with silence engulfing us. The entire hall was so quiet that you could hear the sound of a pin drop. All eyes were shifting between me and the supposed senior surgeon, waiting for answers.And he remained there, listening to my heart pounding with anxiety, his dark, piercing eyes scanning me as if I were a manuscript that he did not want to drop.I swallowed hard and dry every now and then, wishing, hoping, and praying to the heavens that he would not say that I was the one who caused that wound on his forehead. Or worse, reveal what kind of an immoral person I am. I mean, you can never be too sure with people nowadays."I took it upon myself to go through all your profiles," he said, his voice deep and steady.It was the kind of voice that didn't just ask for silence—it commanded it. His presence was like a storm cloud, dark and heavy, filling every inch of the room. Every inch of me. Even at that scary moment

"Spill it out, you scheming bitch!" Marylyn snickered beside me. "You must have said something about us for Dad to react like that."Dad?I laughed out loud at that. The confidence of the bitch, huh!I took advantage of their confusion at my outburst and amassed all the might in me. I yanked my hand away, my own anger flaring. "Well, you two have the guts to gang up on me with stupid accusations while it is actually you two that betrayed me!"Everyone gathered around us, eager for the juice. I was not planning on bringing this to the public, but I was not going to sit and let them humiliate me like they were saints."We are not talking about that...""Why?" I snapped, cutting Vincent off. "Why don't you want us to go back to the roots? Where does betrayal begin?"People traded glances. Murmurs erupted. Questions were whispered in the air, but not low enough to miss my ears.I was not the kind to seek attention, but they had called for it. I was not just going to back down from them."