Before Zachary could pick her up, Charlotte stopped him. “I can go to the hospital myself. You don’t have to come with me, Mr. Nacht,” she said coolly.

 

“Can you stop putting on an act?” Zachary snarled, his teeth gritted angrily.

“You—”

“Shut up!” Zachary didn’t give her a chance to speak as he picked her up and stalked out.

“Zachary Nacht, let me down this instant!” Charlotte hissed. “Let me down!”

 
 

Ignoring her cries, Zachary brought her to his car. He was about to get in after her when Ben reminded him, “Er, Ms. Gold is still here.”

It was only then that Zachary remembered Nancy’s existence. He turned at his shoulder and said apologetically, “I’m sorry, but I have to go to the hospital now.”

 

“It’s fine. I understand.” Nancy flashed a smile. She urged, “You should hurry and send Ms. Lindberg to the hospital. We can meet up another time.”

“Mm,” Zachary grunted in response. He told Ben, “Give Ms. Gold a ride home.”

“Yes.”

the hospital,

as pale as a sheet,

she had held it any tighter, her

 

her trembling figure. “Are you a fool? Why did you grab the dagger with your bare hand? Do you think I’m

trying to protect you,” retorted Charlotte in a disdainful tone. “I don’t want this to escalate into a fight. If I don’t stop him, and one of you gets

himself to

the hospital. Raina promptly got to work on Charlotte’s wound as Lupine and Zachary stood aside silently.

neatly. Raina prescribed some oral medicine and ointment before reminding Lupine to take good care of her. She also offered to pay a

made, but Zachary wasn’t satisfied. “What if your wound gets in contact with water? What if it gets infected? Raina, bring a few nurses with you and stay with her

I have an important surgery tomorrow,” Raina replied, torn. “And Dr.

to my order?”

in. “All right. I’ll

just a superficial wound. You don’t

“Charlotte—”

Raina. You can

at Zachary, her feet rooted to the

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