Chapter 251

He stared at me for a moment, his eyes narrowing just slightly. I held my breath, afraid that I had gone too far. Then, he ambled over to his desk and sat down.

He folded his hands and looked up at me. “I never said that I was bitten by a cat. Mike saw my neck when I came back to the apartment last night, and that was what he assumed happened since I was gone for so long. He must have told Gai.”

Of course, I knew that he wouldn’t actually go to the hospital to get a rabies shot that he didn’t need. I knew that he had only called me into his office to stop Gai gossiping about him. I shuddered, thinking about how angry Alexander had gotten when he had discovered that I’d been gossiping with Gai about him and Naomi. One of his biggest pet peeves was being gossiped about.

“Do you actually have to go to the hospital?” I asked him curiously.

“I do.”

My blood turned to ice. Immediately, my mind jumped to the worst- case scenario. Was he sick? Did he have some incurable disease he has been hiding from me? My heart slammed against my ribcage as I began to spiral out of control. Despite his unique talent for pissing me off, I couldn’t imagine a world where he wasn’t in it.

He must have seen my pale face and sensed my anxiety. “I’m visiting a patient,” he assured me.

My shoulders slumped. “Oh, okay.” I paused as he turned to his computer and began typing. “Well, if that’s all…” I backed out of the

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back drenched with

shut Alexander’s


at the mouth from

eves.

laugh escaped my mouth. “No.

Because I came into the office early this morning, and he was already in the waiting room. He was standing in front of the mirror there

to the hospital later, but he’s fine,” I assured

“If you say so…”

ten minutes when Alexander came up

while he continued to work on his phone, answering emails. Halfway there, we got stuck in a traffic jam. We were at a standstill, and

right back,” Alexander said, and before I could protest, he hopped out of

a beautiful bouquet of white chrysanthemums wrapped in black paper. My stomach stiffened as I stared at the flowers. Usually, white chrysanthemums were reserved for funerals. The black

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