Side Chick Era... Over

Loving Mom 218

Chapter 218

Uriah spoke with quiet implication. “You didn’t answer the call. How can you be so sure it wasn’t something important?”

Nate frowned. “You stubborn old man, we’re here for treatment, not to exchange pleasantries.”

Uriah lifted his eyelids slowly. “Treatment for what? Stupidity? Foolishness? Or maybe looking for illness where there is none?”

Kelly’s eyelashes trembled, her breathing quickening for no apparent reason.

Uriah seemed to sense something and turned his gaze toward her.

“Miss, your breathing’s shallow, heart rate’s fast… you seem nervous.”

Kelly forced a smile. “I… I just feel a little stuffy. A bit unwell.”

Uriah raised his reading glasses slightly, studying her from head to toe.

“Unwell, huh? You’ve got a rosy complexion and good energy. Doesn’t look to me like anything’s wrong.”

He looked back and forth between the three of them, confusion flickering in his eyes.

“So… which one of you is the patient?”

got the terminal illness?” Nate looked at him skeptically. “Are you sure you’re

temper, chronic halitosis, constipation-loose, unformed stools. You smoke, drink, stay up

mild sexual dysfunction. If not treated promptly, it may… impact your male performance. I suggest you

he had that charmingly roguish edge. In their social circle, he

than shirts. But ever since

one.

had thrown themselves at him, but none could

never accepted his advances, the moment anyone dared to

and settle the score.

so loyal, so

had

was good-looking too. If things with Carter didn’t work out,

Nate never weighed

he wasn’t married, didn’t have

him was far easier than dealing

imagined-never even considered that Nate might

took a small step back. Her eyes met his, a flicker of something dark flashing across

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all this persistence, all