The CEO’s Ex-Wife Is A Famous Doctor

Chapter 26: The Playboy’s Backstory

[Sometimes, when things don’t work out the way you planned, something better is coming. It may be difficult to believe where you stand; often, redirection is a helpful intervention. This is a gift, and I know it. Love and kisses to my girl, Shanty! I’ll see you in a week.]

Shantelle smiled, reading Karise’s post on her profile. Soon, her other friends left

comments.

[I don’t care if I am broke. I’ll see my girl, too] Felice said.

Below, Felice, her other friend, Celest, remarked. [I am far more broke, but Karise will pay for my ticket. I love you @ Karise! See you soon, beautiful Shanty!]

It made Shantelle smile altogether.

Shantelle was leaning against the wall

outside the classroom of her last subject

of the day, going through her friend’s plans of flying out to Warlington.

She sucked in a breath, and after putting

her phone back inside her bag, she caressed her growing belly.

Two weeks ago, during her birthday, she had told her parents about the pregnancy. It broke their heart because plans were changing now with a new life taken into the equation. However, like the loving parents they were, they accepted the circumstance. Her father began making phone calls, assessing how she could get through medical school faster despite

falling pregnant.

Shantelle walked out of the school,

confident. She knew she could overcome

her endeavors with her friends’ and

family’s support. One day, she will

become one of the best thoracic

surgeons.

One day.

Arriving outside the gates, she was

stunned to see Keith Henderson. She

looked around and realized the driver her

father had hired was nowhere to be seen.

“I told your father I would send you home. I am leaving Warlington and don’t know when I’ll be back. I thought I’d say goodbye,” he said. “Not forever, though.”

Then he gave that sexy smirk that made

Shantelle shake her head.

***

“I’m keeping the baby,” Shantelle revealed as they sat in the bench park.

to make a stop at

He had bought her camomile tea from the coffee

espresso.

replied, “It’s the right thing. I hoped

I finished college last year, I thought I

Nicole was back in town. So all that plan of taking medicine went down the drain. Back then, I could not allow

like bringing him lunch – among other things.” She chuckled and revealed, “I

thinking he was

her head, she revealed, “He lost that client because of me,

started arguing,

bad.”

of which lead me to this day. Can you believe

She said. 1

meant

an

However, Keith replied,

precisely what you mean.

you do outlandish

about

ever been

responded, “Shanty, you should know, every playboy

backstory.”

entirely. She snorted as she

seconds, Keith just looked at

in the park. Eventually, he revealed, “I started to like this girl when I was twenty-three.

the boy next door type, the hot shot businessman, but nothing.

attracted

said. “Around two years ago, she broke my

Did she

Shantelle asked.

say that,”

for two months without talking to anybody? I remember that. Evan was cussing

all week,” Shantelle said.

your honeymoon?” Keith asked

with the children’s hospital in Lockwood,’

took care of those insurance

Evan was

an

a girl. She turned to him, asking,

chuckled. He ran his

looking at her, he answered, “No. Not really.

time, I will introduce

know yet if that

anyway, that’s when I started

to

words.

before laughing. “I’m

but I admit, the number

hearts you had

in the

to forget her.

her heart, but I know

“The idiotic things we do for