Chapter 94

“Seriously, Leanne, do you always have to be so prickly?” Curtis said, his frustration.

evident.

“I’m not trying to prick you,” Leanne replied calmly but firmly. “I just don’t want people to know about us, especially now.”

Curtis let out a derisive chuckle. “What, am I some kind of outcast now? We’ve been married for three years, and you’ve kept it under wraps like it’s some state secret. Are you a CIA agent?”

“It was you who wanted to keep everything hush-hush, to ‘protect my identity, remember?” “That was to protect you.”

“Protect me?” Leanne laughed humorlessly, locking eyes with him. “And, what about those cozy little headlines you made with Suzan every other week? Was that ‘protecting me’ too?”

Curtis’ expression slowly sobered.

Leanne continued, “Now that the director knows I’m Mrs. Richardson, he treats me with kid gloves. But what happens if we divorce and I lose the clout of the Richardson family name? Do you think he’ll still care about me? Or will he start giving me a hard time, taking. out whatever frustrations he has with you on me?”

“The rumors of our divorce have spread through the department. Ruben and Sandra were caught off guard today, but it won’t be long before they realize this ‘powerful connection’ I supposedly have is only a house of cards, ready to collapse at the slightest breeze.”

apart on its own in a few days. Have you ever considered what my situation will

that. Probably, you can’t even understand. You were born into privilege,

and stares she would have to face once word about the day’s events

If anyone gives you trouble, come to

Instead of focusing on healing and saving lives, they’re all about kissing up

what was the point of telling him? The frustration she

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she faced at the

suddenly asked, “Do you even remember the last time

like a fire quenched

was Christmas Eve,” she said. “You

nearly three

then, I was just an intern, and you used to pick me up

envied Leanne for marrying such a handsome and caring man before she even finished graduate

got a coveted position at this prestigious hospital, and her classmate went elsewhere. Since then, Curtis had never once dropped her off or picked her

had visited even once in these past two years, my colleagues might recognize you,” Leanne

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