Semua Bab Surgeon's Revenge: From Ex Wife To Country's Best Doctor : Bab 51 - Bab 60

Scarlett's POV Lauren was waiting outside the break room this time.Same crossed arms as last time. Different level of serious.I pushed the door open and she followed me in."Someone called the hospital this morning," she said. "Asked for you by name. Not a patient. Not a family member.""What kind of questions?""Background." She held my gaze. "Name history. Where you trained. Where you were before St. Marie Memorial." A pause. "Your previous identity."The break room was very quiet."He used that phrase?" I said. "Previous identity.""He said it like it was routine," Lauren said. "Like he was reading from a list. I told him Dr. Fox was unavailable and took a number. He left one.""Did he give a name?" I asked."Ray Coulter." She watched my face. "You know it.""No," I said. "But I will.""Scarlett. Previous identity is not a phrase a patient's family member uses." She looked at me for a moment. " That's a journalist phrase. That's someone who already has a thread and is pulling it

Scarlett's POV Spencer left at six in the morning.I heard him moving around the apartment in the dark, quiet the way he always was when he was trying not to wake anyone. He came to the bedroom doorway and I could see his outline against the hall light."Flight's at eight," he said quietly."I know," I said. "Go."He came in and sat on the edge of the bed. Kissed me once, his hand against my jaw. "I'll be back tomorrow evening.""I'll be waiting for you." I smiled.He looked at me for a second in the dark like he wanted to say something else. Then he left.I lay there listening to the apartment settle around the quiet he'd left behind and thought about the fact that Nicholas was coming at seven this evening.I'd known that when I confirmed the visit.I hadn't changed it.Aiden opened the door before Nicholas knocked.Nicholas stood in the doorway with a paper bag that smelled like the bakery on Clement Street and looked at Aiden and then past him into the kitchen. One beat where his

Scarlett's POVHe leaned in, his face inches from mine.I pulled back, leaned back in my chair, putting space between us, and looked at the table.The kitchen was very quiet.Nicholas stayed where he was for a second. Then he sat back too.Neither of us said anything for a moment."We shouldn't do that," my voice was surprisingly steady."I'm sorry," his voice was rough."I'm with Spencer." I kept my voice even. "He's, he's good to me. He's been good to me in ways that I don't think you fully understand and I'm not going to..." I stopped. "I can't do that to him."Nicholas looked at the table. "I understand.""Then why...""Because I can't help it." He said it quietly. "I've been trying to help it since you walked into that consultation room and I haven't managed it yet." He looked up. "I'm not asking you to do anything. I just..." He stopped. "I'm sorry."I looked at him and he looked back.The space between us was appropriate now and the moment that had almost happened was just sitt

Scarlett's POV Richard called at seven fourteen.I was still in my robe with my first coffee when my phone buzzed on the counter. I looked at the name and picked up immediately."Anything new?" I asked."The shell company," he said without delay. "The one connected to the eleven fourteen call. I traced the registered address.""And?""The address connects to a building. The building has three tenants. Two legitimate firms and a private consulting group registered eighteen months ago." He paused. "The consulting group's director name is clean. Too clean. But the building itself appears in financial records connected to a man named George Weston ."I didn't recognize the name. "Who is Weston?""Currently under federal investigation," Richard said. "Financial crimes. Money laundering, specifically. Through shell companies and private consulting groups registered in the last two years." Another pause. "The investigation has nothing to do with Cruz on paper. Different agency, different ca

Nicholas's POV My father called at four thirty.I was in the middle of a call with the Navarro team when his name appeared on my second phone. I finished the sentence I was on, told the Navarro team I'd follow up tomorrow, and picked up."Come have dinner," Konrad said. "By seven o'clock a the estate.""I have things to do," I said."I'm not asking you Nicholas," he said. "I'll be waiting by seven o'clock."He hung up.I sat at my desk for a moment. Then I picked up my phone and typed to Scarlett: My father just called me in. Dinner at the estate tonight.Her reply came in under thirty seconds.Go and be normal. Text me when you leave.I put my phone in my pocket and went back to work and spent the next two hours being completely normal with considerable effort.The estate looked the same as it always had.Old stone, the gates, the driveway, the particular quality of light the grounds had in the evening that had always made the place look more permanent than anything had a right to l