Chapter 209

After dinner, everyone headed back to their stations, and Leanne was bustling around as

usual.

Once she had sorted out the new patient, she made her way back to the office, with just over ten minutes to go until midnight.

Joy called her, keeping up with her tradition of ordering Leanne a birthday cake every year, and this year was no exception:

The birthday present had been delivered to Leanne earlier.

She went downstairs to collect it, wished the delivery guy, who had braved the late hour, a Merry Christmas, and carried the cake back upstairs.

“I wanna be the first to wish you a happy birthday! Don’t you dare hang up, okay? If you’re busy, just put the phone down for a bit.”

fishing

Lately, Joy had been spurred into action by Selina. “That little goofball Selina was fish around a few days ago, asking if your birthday was on Christmas Day. She definitely. planned to call you right on the dot, but she didn’t count on me being one step ahead, hehe!”

It was almost midnight, and usually, the hospital’s patients would be resting, leaving the building in a tranquil silence.

But today, with fewer people around, spirits were unexpectedly high. To Westerners magic of “Christmas Eve” alone is enough to lift spirits.

sadness, it’s like they’re put

hear the sound of Christmas’ celebrations from the

for your laugh, it’s like a wake-up call,

awake.”

Phone in one hand and birthday cake in the other, she spotted a figure standing at

in a black turtleneck sweater, exuded an

her with a

a cake in

her

as Curtis parked his car, picking

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was a beautiful pink butterfly cake.

cake was adorned with layers of delicate pink waves,

with edges dusted in gold.

blossom or the delicate wings of

by half an hour, thinking that showing up now might annoy Leanne, interrupting

his car and fishing out a pack of cigarettes. from his

lighting one up but then hesitated, stuffing the cigarette back into the pack and tossing it back into the

his time in Emberland Country, but it had picked

after dining with colleagues, she ended up

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