All Chapters of Surgeon's Revenge: From Ex Wife To Country's Best Doctor : Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

66 Chapters

Chapter 51: Asking Questions

Scarlett's POV Lauren was waiting outside the break room this time.Same crossed arms as last time. Different level of serious.I pushed the door open and she followed me in."Someone called the hospital this morning," she said. "Asked for you by name. Not a patient. Not a family member.""What kind of questions?""Background." She held my gaze. "Name history. Where you trained. Where you were before St. Marie Memorial." A pause. "Your previous identity."The break room was very quiet."He used that phrase?" I said. "Previous identity.""He said it like it was routine," Lauren said. "Like he was reading from a list. I told him Dr. Fox was unavailable and took a number. He left one.""Did he give a name?" I asked."Ray Coulter." She watched my face. "You know it.""No," I said. "But I will.""Scarlett. Previous identity is not a phrase a patient's family member uses." She looked at me for a moment. " That's a journalist phrase. That's someone who already has a thread and is pulling it

Chapter 52: What He Already Knows

Calista's POVI called ahead.Not because I needed permission but because showing up unannounced at the Cruz estate sent a message I wasn't ready to send. It said desperate. It said I've run out of moves on my own. I hadn't run out of moves. I just needed access to a bigger board.Konrad's assistant put me through in under a minute.He was expecting me eventually. He'd decided now was fine.I drove to the estate at three.The housekeeper showed me to the study.Konrad was at his desk when I came in, not at the window, not pretending to be occupied with something else. Just sitting there waiting, which meant he'd already decided how this conversation was going to go before I arrived and was ready to begin."Calista." He gestured to the chair across from him. "Sit."I sat.He folded his hands on the desk and looked at me with those flat grey eyes that had never once given anything away in the fifteen years I'd known him."You wanted to talk," he said."I have information I thought you s

Chapter 53: Alone With The Kids

Scarlett's POV Spencer left at six in the morning.I heard him moving around the apartment in the dark, quiet the way he always was when he was trying not to wake anyone. He came to the bedroom doorway and I could see his outline against the hall light."Flight's at eight," he said quietly."I know," I said. "Go."He came in and sat on the edge of the bed. Kissed me once, his hand against my jaw. "I'll be back tomorrow evening.""I'll be waiting for you." I smiled.He looked at me for a second in the dark like he wanted to say something else. Then he left.I lay there listening to the apartment settle around the quiet he'd left behind and thought about the fact that Nicholas was coming at seven this evening.I'd known that when I confirmed the visit.I hadn't changed it.Aiden opened the door before Nicholas knocked.Nicholas stood in the doorway with a paper bag that smelled like the bakery on Clement Street and looked at Aiden and then past him into the kitchen. One beat where his

Chapter 54: Amber Light

Scarlett's POV He was still looking at the garden plan.I was still looking at the kitchen.The afternoon light had gone that specific amber that happened just before evening settled in properly, warm and low through the window, making everything look softer than it was."How's the contract?" I asked, trying to start a conversation.. "I'm waiting on the next Singapore update." Nicholas looked up. "My father mentioned another meeting in two weeks.""When it's confirmed let me know immediately," I said. "Richard wants anything that touches that account documented in real time.""I know." He paused. "Is Richard moving faster?""He's moving carefully," I said. "Which is the right way to move." I turned my mug slightly on the table. "Careful and fast aren't the same thing.""No," he said. "They're not."We looked at our mugs.Down the hall I could hear Aiden moving around his room, something being shifted, probably rearranging his drawings the way he did when a new idea was taking over t

Chapter 55: Pull Back

Scarlett's POVHe leaned in, his face inches from mine.I pulled back, leaned back in my chair, putting space between us, and looked at the table.The kitchen was very quiet.Nicholas stayed where he was for a second. Then he sat back too.Neither of us said anything for a moment."We shouldn't do that," my voice was surprisingly steady."I'm sorry," his voice was rough."I'm with Spencer." I kept my voice even. "He's, he's good to me. He's been good to me in ways that I don't think you fully understand and I'm not going to..." I stopped. "I can't do that to him."Nicholas looked at the table. "I understand.""Then why...""Because I can't help it." He said it quietly. "I've been trying to help it since you walked into that consultation room and I haven't managed it yet." He looked up. "I'm not asking you to do anything. I just..." He stopped. "I'm sorry."I looked at him and he looked back.The space between us was appropriate now and the moment that had almost happened was just sitt

Chapter 56: You're Back

Scarlett's POV He walked through the door at six thirty two.Aiden hit him before he'd fully crossed the threshold, both arms, full force, the impact of a child who had been waiting since four o'clock and wasn't pretending otherwise."You're back," Aiden said into his shoulder."Yeah," Spencer said. His bag dropped to the floor and his arm came around Aiden and he held on for a second the way he always did, that real grip..Valeria appeared from her room. She walked down the hallway and stopped in front of Spencer and looked at him."Boston was cold," she said."Very cold," he said."You should have packed the grey coat." Her voice was flat."I had the grey coat." He said."The other grey coat," she said. "The heavier one.""I was fine, Val." He said."You look cold," she said,"Well am not," Spencer said flatly. Valeria looked at him a moment, then went to the kitchen.Spencer looked at me over Aiden's head.I smiled. "Welcome home."He held my gaze for a second. Something in it t

Chapter 57: Bigger than Both Of Us

Scarlett's POV Richard called at seven fourteen.I was still in my robe with my first coffee when my phone buzzed on the counter. I looked at the name and picked up immediately."Anything new?" I asked."The shell company," he said without delay. "The one connected to the eleven fourteen call. I traced the registered address.""And?""The address connects to a building. The building has three tenants. Two legitimate firms and a private consulting group registered eighteen months ago." He paused. "The consulting group's director name is clean. Too clean. But the building itself appears in financial records connected to a man named George Weston ."I didn't recognize the name. "Who is Weston?""Currently under federal investigation," Richard said. "Financial crimes. Money laundering, specifically. Through shell companies and private consulting groups registered in the last two years." Another pause. "The investigation has nothing to do with Cruz on paper. Different agency, different ca

Chapter 58: Pull It Back

Calista's POV I called R on a Thursday morning.I'd been putting it off for two days. Not because I was uncertain, I'd made the decision the moment I drove out of the Cruz estate and sat in my car with my steady hands and my unsteady everything else. I was putting it off because making the call meant admitting that the thing I'd built was being taken apart by the man I'd gone to for help.I called at nine fifteen.He answered on the third ring. "Calista.""The Fox piece," I said. "I need you to pull it."A pause. "I'm three weeks in.""I know." My voice was flat."I have the thread," he said. "The name change alone is a story. The background, the gap in her history, there's something there and I'm close to...""Pull it," my voice was sharp."I need a reason." He said.I looked at the window. At the city going about its morning outside."The sourcing is compromised," I said. "What I gave you to start with came from a place that's about to become complicated. If the piece runs and the

Chapter 59: Dinner With My Father

Nicholas's POV My father called at four thirty.I was in the middle of a call with the Navarro team when his name appeared on my second phone. I finished the sentence I was on, told the Navarro team I'd follow up tomorrow, and picked up."Come have dinner," Konrad said. "By seven o'clock a the estate.""I have things to do," I said."I'm not asking you Nicholas," he said. "I'll be waiting by seven o'clock."He hung up.I sat at my desk for a moment. Then I picked up my phone and typed to Scarlett: My father just called me in. Dinner at the estate tonight.Her reply came in under thirty seconds.Go and be normal. Text me when you leave.I put my phone in my pocket and went back to work and spent the next two hours being completely normal with considerable effort.The estate looked the same as it always had.Old stone, the gates, the driveway, the particular quality of light the grounds had in the evening that had always made the place look more permanent than anything had a right to l

Chapter 60: The Problem With Him

Nicholas's POV I sat in the car for sixty seconds.The estate behind me. The north gate road to my left, dark and quiet, the one my father had mentioned with that flat careful voice.Uneven in places.Drive safely.I pulled out my phone and called Scarlett.She picked up on the first ring."What happened?" she asked."He knew about the contract forward," I said. "IT logs outgoing forwards apparently. Standard practice.""What did you tell him?""That I sent it to my personal account." My voice was flat. "That I was away from my office and wanted to review it on my own device."A pause. "Did he believe you?""I honestly couldn't tell," I said. "That's the problem with him. He listens and nods and you leave the room with no idea what he's filed away and what he's discarded." I pulled out of the driveway onto the main road. "He also mentioned Spencer by name."Silence on the other end. Then: "What did he say about him?""His philanthropy work. Healthcare access. He said it brings you in

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