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?"

odds aren't great." He didn't sugarcoat his words, especially when indicating that several markers in my reports were

at least long enough to uncover the truth

involves radiation, too, and the kind from those minerals has 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

had led to leukemia and cancer in many

and

deal. I had to talk

contemplating my situation, I shook my head. "I can't be

sand. Hospitalization would mean Clyde finding out everything. And with my condition public knowledge, any

out a document. "This is an experimental drug from Aurora Labs I've been working on. It might shield you from some

list of unfamiliar medical terms made me

nervous system,

nodded. "Doubt it. It's used to offset

hearing that, I breathed a sigh of relief.

to give it a shot." With

е

avoid a recurrence, I was all in.