All Chapters of He Chose Her the Night I Miscarried. Now He’s on His Knees: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

Evelyn's POV:“Still as precise as ever.”Lucas Whitmore spoke as I stepped out of the operating room.“You know what to watch for afterward without me spelling it out, right?”I asked as we walked.Lucas smiled.“Who knows? We almost never see a case like this.”I ran through every possible complication in my mind, deciding what instructions needed to be left behind.Then Lucas said lightly, “How about we grab something to eat first?”How many times had his easygoing warmth pulled me back from the edge?I looked at his smiling face and nodded.“Sounds good.”I took off my scrubs and changed.I was not in the staff locker room. This room had been specially prepared for the genius surgeon known as X.Once I was dressed, I washed my hands and looked at myself in the mirror.Five years ago, I had fled this place.Now, I had been invited back as the genius surgeon Dr. X.How ironic.I turned off the water, dried my hands, and pulled the closed curtain back just enough to

It had been five years since I had last seen her face.Why did these people have the nerve to show up in front of me as if nothing had happened?Just as Lucas had said, no one except him was allowed inside this room. Anyone could walk past the door, of course, but coming inside was another matter entirely.She must have seen Nathan enter.And somehow, even after five years, Sophie was still at Nathan’s side.How ridiculous.Though, honestly, that worked in my favor.I looked at her over Lucas’s shoulder and understood at once.She hadn’t had the baby after all.Her clothes clung tightly to her body, drawing attention to her full chest, narrow waist, and curvy hips.I almost wondered how much she spent maintaining a figure like that.When she first appeared before Nathan, Ryan, and me as the housekeeper’s daughter, she had seemed sweet and delicate.Now she looked like a woman who had been carefully crafted to draw men in.Anyone with half a brain should have known to be wa

Sophie’s POV:Nathan grabbed my arm and led me away.As we passed a nurse in the hallway, he called out, “Excuse me, could you send housekeeping to that private room?”Even as he spoke, he did not loosen his grip.“Nathan, you’re hurting me.”I made my voice small and weak, but he paid no attention. He walked straight into his office.The same office where, five years ago, we had talked about Evelyn Carter.The same office where we had driven her into despair.Nathan shut the door behind us and finally released my arm. He let out a long breath and rubbed at his brow.“Sophie, what were you doing there?”I never thought the day would come when Nathan would question me like that.“I heard you were performing an important surgery today,” I said softly. “I thought you’d be exhausted when it was over, and I wanted to do something to make you feel better.”I lowered my head.Nathan let out another heavy sigh.“I told you before, that room was off-limits. I’ve made a lot of exce

Evelyn’s POV:I went straight back to the hotel room.“Are you sure you’re okay with that?”Lucas asked.“I’m not hungry...”Lucas let out a quiet sigh. After setting down our things, he turned back to me.“I’ll go get you something. You need to eat.”He walked over, gave my head a gentle pat, and left the room.Alone in the hotel room, I took the documents from my bag.Nolan had given them to me before the surgery, so I had not had time to look through them carefully.I sat on the sofa and began reading.Dr. Naomi Sutton’s name appeared throughout the records.Five years ago, she had been the doctor who treated me at St. Catherine after I was rushed in for my miscarriage. She had also been a colleague of Nolan’s and mine.It seemed that even while treating me, she had questioned the sudden change in my condition.Until then, I had been perfectly healthy. There had been no warning signs. Yet my body had suddenly deteriorated, and I had lost the baby.Something about it h

Dr. Sutton led me into a small medication storage room.Was this really something she could only discuss in a place like this?As I watched, she searched through the shelves.“Dr. Sutton, what exactly are you...?”“Found it.”She pulled out a ring of keys, unlocked one of the cabinets, and took out a white box.Then she turned and held it up for me.“Even a neurosurgeon should know what this medication is, right?”The name printed on the box made my blood run cold.“...Linepros.”The records I had been reviewing.The medication in front of me.They pointed to one possibility.“Evelyn’s miscarriage... was intentional?”Dr. Sutton looked down at the box.“When I was treating Dr. Carter five years ago, something didn’t sit right with me.”I waited for her to continue, feeling as though something inside me was crumbling apart.“I was her attending physician. I knew she took good care of herself, even as a doctor. Her test results had been perfect until then.”Dr. Sutton o