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The moment Ethan told me Aurora had resigned from Blackwell Medical, something inside me went cold.“She resigned?” I repeated.Ethan nodded. “Yes, sir. Dr. Harris confirmed it. She submitted her resignation earlier today.”I stared at him.Aurora had resigned.She had left Blackwell Medical without saying a word to me.After everything that had happened between us, she had simply decided to walk away.“Where is she now?” I asked.“We’re still trying to find out.”I didn’t wait for him to finish.I grabbed my keys and walked out of my office.“Kieran..”“I’ll call you.”I barely remembered the drive to Aurora’s apartment. My mind was racing with questions.When I reached her apartment building, I practically ran upstairs.I stopped in front of her door and knocked.“Aurora?”Nothing.I knocked again.“Aurora, it’s me.”Still nothing.My heart began pounding.I tried the handle.The door opened.“Aurora?”I stepped inside.Then I froze.The apartment was empty.Completely empty.The fr

Manhattan looked nothing like Los Angeles.It was louder,Colder,Faster.It’s almost time for me to give birth.I knew it was time to move to a new place.People hurried along the sidewalks with their heads down, taxis filled the streets, and towering buildings seemed to stretch endlessly toward the gray sky.I stood outside the small apartment building with one hand wrapped around the handle of my suitcase and the other resting unconsciously against my stomach.I allowed myself to breathe.I was here.Except from Jessica,I was away from everyone that made life meaningful for me ,most especially Kieran.“I miss you Kieran”My chest tightenedI quickly pushed it away.I couldn’t think about him.Not now.“Are you planning to stand there all day?”Jessica’s voice pulled me from my thoughts.I looked up to see her struggling with two bags while balancing a box against her hip.Despite everything, I smiled.“You’re the one carrying half my life.”“Exactly. And I’m beginning to regret being

I woke before sunrise with one hand resting over my stomach.I stayed completely still and can’t stop thinking about how my prenatal check up went.The apartment was quiet. The only sound was the faint hum of the refrigerator in the kitchen.I looked down at my stomach.It wasn’t huge yet, but there was a small curve that hadn’t been there before.Two little lives depending on me.A smile touched my lips.“Good morning, my babies.”I slowly pushed myself out of bed.My body felt heavier every day. Some mornings, I woke exhausted before I had even done anything.But exhaustion wasn’t an excuse.I needed money for rent, food,for my babies and a lot of things.Everything cost money, and I didn’t have enough of it.So I had found a part-time job at a small café near my apartment.It wasn’t glamorous.It wasn’t the kind of work someone like me had imagined doing after spending years working in medicine.But I didn’t care.I would wash dishes, serve coffee, clean tables—whatever I needed t

Six years.Six years had passed since Aurora Evans disappeared from my life. I had stood outside her empty apartment, staring at a space that no longer contained a single trace of her.Six years since I had asked myself the same question every night.Where are you?I sat behind the enormous desk in my office, staring through the floor-to-ceiling windows at Los Angeles.The city had changed.So had I.Blackwell Medical had grown into one of the largest healthcare groups in the country.Hospitals,Specialty clinics,Research centers,Pediatric facilities,Medical technology investments.Our name was everywhere.Business magazines called me one of the most powerful healthcare executives in America.Investors called me brilliant.Competitors called me ruthless.Employees called me demanding.But none of them knew the truth.None of them knew that every achievement felt strangely empty.Because there was one person I had never managed to find.I leaned back in my chair.My fingers unconscious

My flight was very early in the morning because the event was supposed to happen in some days time. I just wanted to leave early to also see my grandma.It’s been years since I visited manhattan.The city looked almost exactly the way I remembered it.The moment my car entered Manhattan, something unfamiliar settled in my chest.I stared through the tinted window as buildings rose around me.People hurried along the sidewalks.Yellow taxis filled the roads.The city moved with the same restless energy I remembered.But for me, Manhattan wasn’t just a city, it was where I grew up with my grandma and also the city Aurora has vanished into.I had come for the medical summit, followed by several business meetings involving Blackwell Medical’s expansion.At least, that was what I kept telling myself.My mind kept returning to one question.Could she still be here?I didn’t want to think about that.Six years was a long time.If Aurora were still in Manhattan, the investigators would have