Turning Of the Tide by Diana Sander

Chapter 22

The hospital was always the busiest place, and it was where one could see what human nature was like. There were people coming and going in the wards, corridors, and halls. There were old, young, and sick people with their companions. Some of them were crying, some were silent, and some had smiles on their faces.

It had been almost three years since she graduated, and her heart was no longer as sensitive as when she first left school. At that time, even time she saw someone pitiful, she would cry along with them.

There were too many helpless moments and accidents in the world, and she didn’t have time to sympathize.

In the adult world, there was never an easy way to choose, so being able to turn a mess into a beautiful day was already good enough.

Sherri was afraid of disturbing Natalie’s consultation, so she took the medicine and went to her own office for a while. At this time, everyone was in the outpatient department or in surgery, and the office was empty.

She waited until it was close to dinner time before getting up and going. to the outpatient department to have a meal with Natalie and complain about last night’s unpleasantness.

Sherri directly pushed open the door to her best friend’s outpatient room. There were no patients, and Natalie was taking off her white coat, getting ready to eat.

When Natalie saw Sherri enter, she stopped what she was doing, sat back at her desk, and asked in a hurry, “You finally showed up. If you didn’t, I was going to call the police. Where did you sleep last night?”

Jim told Natalie that “Mr. Roberts” had arranged everything, but she didn’t know who “Mr. Roberts” was. At this moment, she really wanted to know where Sherri was last night.

Sherri, exhausted, slumped on the desk and casually tossed the medical records to Natalie, indicating that she was sick.

Natalie skeptically took the medical records and was surprised by what the doctor had written. She asked, “What happened to you? I called in sick for you today, and you really went all out. You don’t have to be so convincing, do you?”

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Continuing to read the medical records, Natalie said, “Muscle strain. What were you doing last night? What’s wrong with your mouth?” She was completely confused.

Sherri, half-dead, spoke up. “Please give me some soup. I’m starving,” she said slowly, propping up her cheek.

These past few days, she hadn’t been able to eat anything good, so soup was her only choice.

“What a tasteless life!” Sherri mourned inwardly.

Natalie looked at her friend’s pale face and said, “Hmm, I’ll get you some.

But first, tell me what happened to your mouth.” She paused for a moment and added, “Do you want some meat in it?”

“Yeah, sure,” Sherri replied.

Just as Natalie took out her phone from her pocket, she saw a friend. request notification. She was a bit puzzled because not many people knew her WhatsApp ID.

Seeing Natalie’s furrowed brow, Sherri asked in a low voice, “What’s wrong?”

swiped it away and continued to

said in a wavering voice,

still looking down and searching for a

restaurant.

you is Hackett,” Sherri said, feigning a pitiful

then did Natalie look up at

uneasy.

this moment, she was saying, “Go

hesitated for a moment and

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home. But I swear, nothing happened. I just slept in the living room. We’re not interested in each other at all, so nothing really happened. And you know, I always want to blow up balloons when I’m drunk. He bought me 500 balloons for that, and I blew up 250. That’s why my mouth is like this. But this damn guy filmed me and threatened to release the video. unless I give him your contact information. So,

this moment, she didn’t care about friending Hackett or not. Instead, she

sympathy for the so-called Mr. Blackwell. She wondered if he

night, you were acting crazy at Hackett’s house but he didn’t kick. you out of

friend or what? You left me behind last night and didn’t even take me home. And

Wilson is your husband, he’ll know

from drinking last night. I ended up

what happened to Sherri in the morning, without asking Jim how she got back. But then she thought it might not be appropriate to ask him. If Trevon found out that she was not well-behaved after

Natalie thought. Nothing happened to

didn’t ask.

strange. Don’t you usually fall asleep right after drinking? Don’t you remember who took you home last night? Should

you two really that close now?” Natalie asked.

relationship based on threats and

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being threatened.”

said, “You’ve got a lot

Natalie accepted the

night, insisted on bringing Frank to the Wilson Group to seek comfort

Group’s recruitment process was much stricter. Besides emphasizing education, they also considered height, appearance, and

pounds. They were curvaceous and pleasing to the Every time Hackett came in, he would get envious and ask

also often mock Trevon, saying he had a

eye.

a black suit sat gracefully in the boss chair. His well-defined fingers reached for a cigarette from the box and lit it,

to admit that this

took a puff at his cigarette and lifted his chin slightly to signal. Hackett. “What do you want?”

also lit a cigarette and lazily leaned back on

to take

solve your problem last night, so you took matters into your own hands?” He remembered how the two of them kissed each other affectionately

that you did nothing all night,” Frank thought. “Or what did you do? Staring at the