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.

I called for is here,” Benjamin said with a resigned tilt of his mouth, his voice

was an old man, which did

steeped in generations of practice,” Benjamin added

the unspoken message in Benjamin’s eyes. He wished he could keep Natalie as close as his belt, but

clothes and attempted to tame her tousled hair. She looked a bit embarrassed

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

Brian’s intense gaze, however, fixated on Sanford’s hand as it reached out toward

out in a cold sweat. He cautiously pulled a tissue from

her expression disbelief and

not the Dark Ages,” her look seemed

Brian said flatly.

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under her wrist and extended her

Natalie’s pulse with his fingertips. After half a minute, his expression grew more solemn.

offering her other wrist to the

for a few seconds before

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