Chapter 42: Surprise
The hospital lounge, usually a place of restless waiting, had offered Viola’s mother a few hours of much-needed, if troubled, sleep. The hard sofa and the distant hum of the hospital had done little to truly relax her, but exhaustion had finally claimed her. She had been stretched thin, torn betw...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1: A heartwrenching betrayal
2. Chapter 2: Her return
3. Chapter 3: Clara's Vicious scheme
4. Chapter 4: Regret and Resolve
5. Chapter 5: The mysterious man
6. Chapter 6: The calm
7. Chapter 7: Watcher
8. Chapter 8: 'The Shadow'
9. Chapter 9: The confrontation
10. Chapter 10: Unnerving
11. Chapter 11: Vance Sterling
12. Chapter 12: An unusual alliance
13. Chapter 13: Regret
14. Chapter 14: A foreign beat
15. Chapter 15: The Uninvited Guest
16. Chapter 15: A mentor's worry
17. Chapter 17: Unexpected
18. Chapter 18: The gentle touch
19. Chapter 19: Protecting her in the shadows
20. Chapter 20:
21. Chapter 21: A call from home
22. Chapter 22: Urgency
23. Chapter 23: Bold decision
24. Chapter 24: Stepping in
25. Chapter 25: Leading the surgery
26. Chapter 26: Cardiac arrest
27. Chapter 27: Tension in the operating room
28. Chapter 28: Deep concern
29. Chapter 29: News
30. Chapter 30: Fainted again
31. Chapter 31: Protective instinct
32. Chapter 32: Sam's arrival
33. Chapter 33: Let's break up
34. Chapter 34: Still wary
35. Chapter 35: The sleeping beauty
36. Chapter 36: Encounter
37. Chapter 37: Scram!
38. Chapter 38: His presence
39. Chapter 39: mixed feelings
40. Chapter 40: Pale with fright
41. Chapter 41: A bedtime story
42. Chapter 42: Surprise
43. Chapter 43: Her deepest worry
44. Chapter 44: A baffling exception
45. Chapter 45: Discomfort
46. Chapter 46: Felt utterly humiliated
47. Chapter 47: His private office
48. Chapter 48: Mr. Harvey’s unease
49. Chapter 49: Crafty
50. Chapter 50: An uninvited guest
51. Chapter 51: Left
52. Chapter 52: Vance's Rage
53. Chapter 53: Stay away from her
54. Chapter 54: Can we be friends?
55. Chapter 55: Relented
56. Chapter 56: Threatened
57. Chapter 57: Her bedroom
58. Chapter 58: Amber's call
59. Chapter 59: Insomnia
60. Chapter 60: Little girl?
61. Chapter 61: His unusually gentle side
62. Chapter 62: Vance's arrangement
63. Chapter 63: To the airport
64. Chapter 64: The adulterous couple
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