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

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

generations of practice,” Benjamin added quickly, sensing his nephew’s irritation.

Benjamin’s eyes. He wished he could keep Natalie as close as his belt, but she wouldn’t have it.

to tame her tousled hair. She looked a bit embarrassed when she joined

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

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

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.

at Brian, her expression disbelief

21st century, not the Dark Ages,” her look seemed

it,” Brian said flatly.

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her wrist and extended her arm to Sanford,

pulse with his fingertips. After half a minute, his expression grew more solemn. “Switch arms, please.”

as told, offering her other

and pondered for a few seconds before speaking. “Have you had complications with

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