
1.2 K readers · 6 chapters · 2 free
I spent three years on the toughest medical aid missions abroad, all to help Sebastian Sheppard go after the Annual Medical Achievement Award. The night before I was supposed to come home, I saw a video. A young, pretty nurse was wearing my white coat, taking selfies in my private sterile lab. It was Sabrina Larson. The caption read: [Can't wait to share this with you all. Partnered with Dr. Sheppard in surgery today. He taught me suturing step by step. Feels amazing to get special attention.] The comments were full of mockery. [Isn't this Dr. Laurel Joyce's private lab? How did you get in? Did you pull some strings?] Sabrina replied: [Laurel is only a logistics woman with a dull face. She knows nothing about the romance of anatomy.] I sneered, zooming in on the precision suturing machine in her selfies. That machine had cost Starwave Hospital millions, imported specifically for me. Its permissions and core data were locked to me alone, engraved with my Balorian code name. At that moment, I understood everything. The thing I had risked my life to protect had already become someone else's toy.