When Love Becomes a Cage by Nora

Chapter 131

Chapter 131



The following day, I went to the hospital to see Warren. He seemed irked upon learning that Eliana had spilled the beans about the experimental drug. "Can't tell a cold capsule from an anti-inflammatory, and she's sending you over?" he scoffed.

"I mentioned it just once, and she remembered. She's got a good memory and cares about me," I defended.

Warren quickly skimmed through my medical report and took off his glasses more dramatically than usual.

"Melanie, the radiation you were exposed to last time has me worried," he confessed, his tone grave.

That was the first time I'd seen him without his glasses, and he seemed more authoritative, his balding head notwithstanding.

Sitting across from him, I felt a twinge of anxiety. "Is it coming back?"

He didn't sugarcoat his words, especially when indicating that several markers in my reports were off, chilling me

long enough to uncover the truth behind my father's death. But then,

done you no favors," Warren explained. "You're kind of like a glitchy app right now-still going but might crash any minute. I think you should be in the hospital so we can keep an eye on things constantly. If anything goes wrong, we can handle it right away. With me on board,

some digging myself. Radiation from those stones had led to leukemia and cancer in many miners. My exposure might've been

and

a big deal. I had to

I shook my head. "I

Clyde finding out everything. And with my condition public

Aurora Labs I've been working on. It might shield you from some radiation effects in clinical trials. But,

list of unfamiliar medical terms made me

elaborated, "Aside from vomiting, fainting, and nosebleeds, it might affect your central nervous system, but

"Doubt it. It's used to

hearing that, I breathed a sigh of relief. If Warren

want to give it a

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recurrence, I was