Chapter 52

Im gonna hit the shower,” said Gwendolyn.

She dropped her things and hurried back to her room for a quick shower and change into clean clothes. Finally, she knocked on Howard’s door.

“Come in.”

“Mr. Chadwick, I’m here for your acupuncture session,” she said, her voice hoarse and

weary.

Howard’s gaze remained fixed on her as she, like always, began the acupuncture treatment on his legs. Her delicate hands, pale and chapped from the work, stood out starkly.

She looked like a wilted lettuce, utterly spent.

“I’ll remove the needles in half an hour,” Saying, Gwendolyn tidied up her kit and sat down

to wait.

Howard didn’t speak, and he watched as Gwendolyn’s head slowly drooped until her eyes. closed and she dozed off against the rocking chair. He reached into the drawer for some hand lotion and wheeled closer.

The cool cream squirted into his palm, enveloping her hands as he gently massaged

them.

He figured she must’ve had a rough time at the hospital.

to complain. She never had anyone

and

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quietly pulled the needles out himself. A while later, Marina came upstairs with a tray of food, tiptoeing as

“Yes.”

must be beaten.”

sympathetically, “Why even bother with an internship?”

stay on at Bayridge Hospital, and get her medical license in

work this hard, not if Enoch

apprentice.

wasn’t ready to reveal his whereabouts yet.

make some inquiries at Bayridge Hospital tomorrow? See

the food here for

and after Marina left, he gently lifted Gwendolyn and placed her on the

the next morning ravenous,

A warm body was next to hers. She slowly

shifted his arm.

eyes, pretending to sleep, her heart pounding..

for work,” said Howard, his

her eyes calmly,

“Do you

sleep?” He lounged by the bed, his

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