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.

but when they saw who it was, one of them recognized her. “Dr. Sterling?

him!” Charlotte was already reaching for

scrubs.

You know the code–we’re

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

before, in critical situations a doctor has to keep

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see a doctor here?”

froze, her panic slowly

watched the steady line of the heart monitor, pressed her

it’s understandable. But

surgical team, then slowly backed

shakily rose to her

Charlotte’s voice

a little, her voice trembling. “There’s always someone watching in the station–how could this happen? How

grew

already have his

in a police station–whose responsibility

that kind of

Without another word, she

elevator.

lounged in a visitor’s chair, flipping idly through a magazine. Tricia sipped the soup he’d brought, a smile lighting her face. “Evander, thank you for coming to sit with me–and

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