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

at least long enough to uncover

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 in the hospital so we can keep an

I did some digging myself. Radiation from those stones had led to leukemia and

remained silent, and

big deal. I had to talk with someone,

shook my

Clyde finding out everything. And with my condition public knowledge,

I've been working on. It might shield you from some radiation effects in clinical

unfamiliar medical terms made me

vomiting, fainting, and nosebleeds, it might affect your central nervous system, but we're unclear on the specifics."

"Doubt it. It's used

sigh of relief.

to give it

е

to avoid a recurrence, I was all in. After all,