A Diamond in Her Own Right
The day before my engagement to Dean was announced, his childhood sweetheart falsely claimed I had broken her fingers when she was playing the piano.
Dean flew into a rage and made me join the medical relief team in Loasia. Now that I was abandoned with just the clothes on my back, I had no choice but to fend for myself.
Not long after, I was informed that he was getting married.
Everyone bet that I would fly back to steal him away. After all, I had been head over heels in love with him.
However, I never appeared even at the end of the wedding. I didn't even call him.
I had vanished into thin air.
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Five years later...
A man, heavily injured from a car crash, arrived at the emergency department. His significant other demanded that he be operated on by the hospital director.
I calmly held up my scalpel in the operating theatre, my face hidden behind a surgical mask. "Administer the anesthesia."
Before he could be sedated, the man suddenly grabbed my wrist. Tears streamed down his cheeks as he demanded weakly, "Eve, is that you?"
I pulled his hand away from mine and shot the anesthetist a look. "The patient is aggravated. Increase the dosage."