Regret Novel 91

The moment Charlotte answered the phone, she was met with the sound of her mother Rachel’s heart–wrenching sobs. “Hiram… something’s happened to him!”

Charlotte froze.

Her mind went completely blank, a wave of ringing filling her ears.

She raced to the emergency room at Metropolitan General Hospital. Rachel was sitting on a chair, utterly collapsed, sobbing uncontrollably. Beside her stood Xavier, his face drawn and grave.

It had only been a few days since she’d last seen Xavier, but now gray streaked his hair at the temples, and he looked a decade older.

Charlotte flagged down a nurse, her voice urgent. “What happened to the person inside the ER?”

“I heard he suffered a severe head injury from a beating, which caused massive bleeding and led to shock. Dr. Sinclair is performing surgery now.”

A beating…

He was attacked at the police station?

How was that possible…

Charlotte’s grip loosened, her whole body trembling as she stood rooted to the

spot.

Suddenly, she pushed her way into the operating room.

was, one of them recognized her. “Dr.

to save him!” Charlotte was already reaching for

scrubs.

the code–we’re

figure on the table, Charlotte’s voice was dazed and hollow. “It’s not that I don’t trust Dr. Sinclair. I… I

condition to help right now, Dr. Sterling. Even you’ve said before, in critical situations a doctor has

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see a doctor here?”

her panic

line of the heart monitor, pressed her lips together, and finally said, “I’m sorry… I lost

understandable. But please, wait

surgical team, then slowly

rose to her

be okay.” Charlotte’s

always someone watching in

grew even

seemed to already have his

all, beaten in a police station–whose responsibility

that

the answer. Without another word, she headed

elevator.

Tricia sipped the soup he’d brought,

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