ped of all warmth-pure, unfiltered contempt. In that instant, it

r him, never once returning to the operating room, reducing

rgeon. That was precisely why, with nothing but roadside instruments and unshaking precision, she had been

he home, she had walked away from her career, from postgraduate studies abroad,

es had become the weapon he

. Isn't a divorce exactly what you've been waiting for? Since you're so eager to leave for your busi

ws drew toge

dison into submission. Instead, she stood there-unyielding,

up. Walk away from me, and you don't get a single cent. And every expense you couldn't split equally over the years has been logge

will send you the full breakdown. I'll return in three days. By then, you'll either admit your

rd, packed his bags, and left with a do

into a suffoc

adison's phone lit up with a long, meti

h-end ingredients she had used to prepare his meals were listed as personal consumption costs. Even

en cruelty and farce. Years ago, after he'd learned Lily had gone abroad, he'd fallen into unconsciousness due to alcoho

d of man he truly was, she wou

would repay what was legitimate, but she

face, and dialed a number she hadn't used in a lon

ch team. But I need a top divorce lawyer, and I'm short on funds

've chased him all the way to Croria over some childhood promise. I'll have my lawyer contact you right away. As for patients, I actually do

thing new to her. Right now, she needed money, and she needed

ccompanied by a note that the pati

the document and began reading, her ex

-William Shaw, head of the Shaw family, ruler of Freeport, the one who con

, a fragment of shrapnel remained lodged deep within his brain, pressing against critical nerves and causing

d, yet the fragment's location made surgery almost impossible. One wrong

longer just medical

e surgeon would face consequenc