Chapter 230

A steady rapping at the door interrupted the stillness of the evening.

Brian furrowed his brow in annoyance.

Bagot was just outside. He should have known that Brian was in no mood for visitors.

Yet, the persistent knock didn’t cease. It fell silent for a moment, only to resume with more determination.

Minutes later, Brian wrenched the door open with a rising temper to find Benjamin standing at the door with an inscrutable expression.

Benjamin’s eyes roamed over Brian’s scantily clad form, lingering suggestively on some part.

“If you don’t have a damn good reason for this, I’ll rip your head off!” Brian growled through clenched teeth.

A shiver ran down Benjamin’s spine. He knew Brian could make good on that threat and then

some more.

of his mouth, his voice low. “Get dressed and come out,

emerged to find that the ‘doctor‘ was an old man, which did little

generations of practice,” Benjamin added quickly, sensing his

wished he could keep Natalie as close as his belt,

her tousled

is Mr. Sanford, a respected professor from my medical school days,” Benjamin introduced, nodding toward the older man. “Please

from Sanford. Brian’s intense gaze, however, fixated on Sanford’s hand as

Sanford’s back broke out in a cold sweat. He cautiously pulled a tissue from a box nearby and handed it to Natalie, motioning for her to place it beneath her wrist.

Brian, her expression disbelief and exasperation.

not the Dark Ages,” her look seemed to say.

Brian said

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reluctantly placed the tissue under her wrist and extended her arm to

lightly touched Natalie’s pulse with his fingertips. After half a minute, his expression

offering her other wrist to

later, Sanford withdrew his hand and pondered for a few seconds before speaking. “Have you had complications with childbirth before?”

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