Chapter 650

Chapter 650

Screwed her over?

I frowned, sending back a quick: [?]

Lena's reply came in hot: [Nate's here!]

Oh, the hotel stunt. I smirked, fingers flying across the screen: [Hope you enjoy the romantic alone time I created for you guys.]

Lena: [Romantic, my ass! I'm about to go into surgery!]

Me: [...]

***

Lena wasn't kidding, and no, the surgery wasn't some lame excuse to dodge Nate-it was real.

Sure, she could've handed it off to another doctor, but nope.

This was her subtle way of saying, 'Guess what, Nate? The universe doesn't orbit around you.'

Why should she rearrange her whole life just because he finally decided to pop back in after ghosting her for months in favor of work?

By the time she wrapped up, it was already pushing 11 p.m.

Check her phone. Maybe Nate had sent a text-or even a string of desperate

But

nope.

The notification bar

chat. The conversation hadn't moved

how was it going

he actually mad about

chat as she made her way to the nurses' station to update them on the

that was done, she headed for

the second she pushed

And there, lounging on the couch was Nate. Polo shirt, tailored slacks-classic I'm- important-but-effortless Nate. Nate looked up. "Was

"Oh, yeah! It went fine. What are you

"Waiting for you."

skipped a beat. "Uh, I was actually gonna

carried a subtle intensity, pressing her

awkward laugh. If she was

change," she mumbled, jerking her

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a break for it, his voice stopped

tripped over her own feet, barely

onto hers. "We're together, Lena. That means we don't hold back-not with emotions, not with... physical ones too." Lena, who'd

anything," she stammered, bolting

""But I do."

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