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.

is here,” Benjamin said with a resigned tilt of his mouth, his

was an old

reputable family physician, steeped in generations of practice,” Benjamin

eyes. He wished he could keep Natalie as close as his belt, but she

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

days,” Benjamin introduced, nodding toward the older

Natalie sat across from Sanford. Brian’s intense gaze, however, fixated on Sanford’s hand as it reached out toward Natalie.

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

back at Brian, her expression

21st century, not the Dark Ages,” her

it,” Brian

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under her wrist and extended her arm to

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

offering her other wrist

few seconds before speaking. “Have

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