ocking. She was carrying a silver breakfast tray, which she slammed
r tone thick with insolence. "She was worried you m
insult. Her focus was on the c
ent, are we? The doctor wil
ks, I believe I made my position clear yesterday. You are no l
oom, a triumphant smile on her face. She was followed by Theodore, who was escort
as poison. "We were just telling Dr. Miller h
e a foul smell: Aria was a gold-digger, overly ea
shocking. Her eyes filled with tears, her lower lip began to
andfather," she said, using the familial title for the fir
sudden display of vulnerability from th
you're used to. I know I don't belong here. But I care about Hadley. I truly do. But
e. "It's almost as if," she said, her voice laced with a naive, dawning horror, "some
imple girl's observation, hit
ned white with fu
was a shrewd man. He knew Vivian had benefited from Hadley's condition, runni
lent posture and Vivian's poorly concealed rage.
dismissed. Pack your bags and be
nce. Vivian sputtered, "Theodore, you
ng no room for argument. He then turned his icy gaze
ok of pure, unadulterated hatred before storming out o
m defiant vixen to weeping victim in a heartbeat, using his own grandfather as a weapon to eliminate her enemies. He also noted her choice of words: "doesn't wa
t except for Aria's s
ia's shoulder awkwardly. "There, there, child. I will hand
wiped her eyes, her expression shifting in
ight in Hadley's unresponsive pupils, tapping his knees for reflexes, listening to his h
omething the d
ible tremor in his fingers. And when the doctor pressed on his fingernails, she
ked in a long-term patient. But to a t
low-dose
ld guess. It had been a hypothesis. And she had ju
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