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After Ben left, from Saturday morning straight through Sunday night, Spirit didn’t sleep a wink.The nerve stimulation had taken a toll on the triplets, making them sick.Spirit spent the entire day tracking their recovery and making sure they remained in bed. By late Sunday night, the danger had finally passed, and they were safe.Now, it was Monday morning.Spirit checked her wristwatch as she walked down the hallway. It was exactly eight o’clock.Ben’s warning was still echoing in her head.If they are not up and working by Monday morning, your career is gone.Her chest tightened with anxiety. She needed to make sure they were healthy before she could officially leave the estate.As she turned the corner toward the main foyer, she spotted Mrs. Higgins tidying the entrance console.“Nurse Browne?” Mrs. Higgins called out, blinking in surprise when she saw her.“Are you still here? Aren’t you done with your shift?”“Good morning, Mrs. Higgins. Yes, I’m leaving today. I just wanted to

Spirit’s fingers were practically cramping from the outrageous amount of data she had entered over the past four hours.She slammed the plastic clipboard onto the nurses’ station counter, her eyes burning from staring at the low-resolution monitor. She was currently trapped in medical purgatory.Charles hadn’t just given her scut work; he had assigned her a never-ending string of the most mind-numbing, exhausting tasks on the entire Medical-Surgical floor.So far, her glamorous day as a surgical nurse resident consisted of:Delivering blood samples to the basement lab. Running discharge paperwork between the billing office and the ward.Transporting patient charts across three different wings of the hospital. Measuring and recording the fluid intake and output of twenty post-op patients.Through the glass windows of the scrub area, Spirit watched two other first-year residents laughing as they washed their hands and arms, preparing to scrub in for a routine appendectomy.Her chest ti

And, of course, Charles did show her exactly how insufferable and petty he could be.The next morning, the moment Spirit stepped onto the Med-Surg floor and clocked in for another brutal day of scut work, Charles was already waiting for her.It felt like he had been standing there waiting for her all morning.He was leaning against the counter, looking as perfectly put together and infuriating as humanly possible.“Nurse Browne,” Charles said, his deep voice cutting through the noisy morning chatter of the ward.“You seem to be enjoying scut work a lot. Isn’t that right?”Spirit’s jaw clenched angrily, but then the advice Mrs. Gable had given her at the dinner table the night before, combined with Chloe’s warning, flashed through her mind.She forced the urge to bury her fist straight into his arrogant face deep down into her chest.“Of course, Dr. Voss,” Spirit replied, her lips stretching into a fake smile.“Scut work is actually the best for a rookie like me. I must say, it’s highl