Semua Bab Your Regrets Fleeting as the Wind: Bab 1 - Bab 10

Charlene Everett wasted no time dismissing my hurt feelings.“You really want a divorce, Isaac? We have a one-month cooling-off period before we can confirm it; you may change your mind after calming down a little bit. You’re just helping Zachary avoid the bad press he can’t afford to take, unlike you. Everyone in the hospital knows the actual truth. Why can’t that be enough for you?”We were walking out of the courthouse after applying for a divorce, but she kept acting unbothered.“You’re a department head at this hospital and a professor in your own right. How can you stand as one of the pillars of this hospital if you can’t handle a few rumors?”She simply ignored the fatigue I was under after getting dragged into a medical malpractice lawsuit. Worse than that, she cared not for my broken heart.“I won’t change my mind, don’t worry,” I said as I held onto the newly signed divorce papers. “We won’t be seeing each other again once this cooling-off period is over.”Saying these

This meant that Charlene had not even realized that I had moved out. I picked up my passport before turning back to her. “We’re done, Charlene. Don’t you think I’ve done enough? I won’t do anything for him ever again.”To get me to help Zachary, Charlene spent the next few days trying to butter me up. That surgery could help Zachary pass his residency program, so Charlene had to make sure that everything was settled. For him, Charlene delayed the patient’s surgery several times. I had been in charge of this patient ever since he was admitted. From what I had heard, his condition was getting worse. I could not help but feel pained because of this. Plus, the hospital director, Dr. Jeffrey Moore, kept begging me to help, so I caved in and went to the hospital. However, I refused to be the lead surgeon. I would only act as a mentor, giving advice and guidance. In the operating room, Zachary arrived all scrubbed up and stared at me in defiance. “You used to be a renowned doctor

“You must have worked very hard to have gained Dr. Hubbard’s trust in a scant two months.”Geneva’s effusive praise of me made me laugh.“And it’s all thanks to the opportunity you gave me. Tell me, how should I thank you for it?”She looked at me shyly through her eyelashes. “You know how I feel about you. Of course, I don’t want to force you into anything. I just hope that you could give me a chance.”Geneva had had a crush on me since university, but I had not known about it at the time. She had been by my side all this time as a friend. It was only after Charlene came into my life that Geneva confessed her feelings. Alas, it had been too late. I had already fallen for Charlene and only thought of Geneva as a friend. From then on, Geneva put away her feelings for me and continued to wait for me as a friend. In ten whole years, she never found a boyfriend. I took Geneva’s hand and made my own feelings clear. “No, you’re the one who needs to give me a chance. Come home w

Seeing that I was about to leave, Charlene gently tugged my hand. She advised softly, “I know you’ve gone through a lot, Isaac, but let’s let bygones be bygones. There’s no point in bringing up the past again, right? Besides, Zach has already lost his job. Are you trying to make him feel worse by bringing all this up again? You should stop. We’ll get remarried in the future, I know it. So you should stop causing such a ruckus.”I flung Charlene’s hand away. Without even looking at her, I said, “I’m not going to stop. We have to get to the bottom of this. I want the truth to come out, including regarding that first incident when you changed the records to show me as the lead surgeon.”Dr. Moore asked me to go back to the hospital and work there again, but I declined. Once the workshop was over, I waited a bit before going back to the hospital. Beside me, Geneva kept hassling me about going back to gather evidence. “Why are you so calm about this? You were the one who said you want

Charlene thinned her lips and could not meet my eyes.Her voice trembled as she said. “I know that. I’ll go and do what’s needed. But… I’m sorry, Isaac. I accused you wrongly. I should have known it earlier. You’ve always been so soft-hearted, and you’ve always felt terrible when patients passed away. There was no way you would have mistreated a patient in a fit of temper. I don’t know why I insisted on believing Zach so much. I’m sorry. I know it’s too late to only look for the truth now.”Charlene had gone through this speech many times, but every time she said it, she felt pain cutting into her. When she accepted the truth, she felt as though she was in that deceased patient’s place, lying on that cold surgery table. She suddenly felt so powerless. What had she done all this time? She promised to always protect Isaac, but she had made him suffer instead. At this point, meeting Isaac’s frosty gaze, she felt that she could say nothing but another apology. It was because of her t