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?”

can’t even tell who’s got the terminal illness?” Nate looked at him skeptically. “Are you

quick temper, chronic halitosis, constipation-loose, unformed

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

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

met Kelly, Nate changed girlfriends more often than shirts. But

one.

thrown themselves at him,

his advances, the moment anyone dared to slight

and settle the score.

her-having someone so loyal, so devoted,

vanity had been

too. If things with Carter didn’t work

Nate never weighed pros and

wasn’t married,

him was far easier than dealing with

never imagined-never even considered that Nate

took a small step back. Her eyes met his, a flicker of something dark flashing across them-shock, discomfort, a trace of disgust

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be that all this persistence, all these years of chasing her, wasn’t