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 where

tea from the coffee shop while

espresso.

and fell for a second. He replied, “It’s the right thing. I hoped that you had pursued

laughed. She answered, When I finished college last year, I thought I spend more time with him, you know.

plan of taking medicine went down the drain.

checking his phone, going to his office, and making excuses like bringing him lunch – among other things.” She chuckled and revealed, “I even went

thinking he was meeting

“He lost that client because

started

bad.”

of which lead me to this

She said. 1

statement wasn’t meant to

but an affirmation of

Keith replied,

you mean.

do outlandish

that statement? Why do you talk about

has ever been in

you should

backstory.”

entirely. She snorted as she answered, “Really now? I’m

Keith just

girl when I was twenty-three. She is younger than me, but

front of her, looking sexy, the boy next door

of me attracted

me,” he said. “Around two years ago, she

Did she

Shantelle asked.

could say that,” Keith

why you left town for two months without talking to anybody? I remember

all week,” Shantelle said.

about me during your honeymoon?” Keith asked with a

something to do with the children’s hospital in

Keith sneered. “Well, I took care of those insurance claims

Evan was being

was an

Shantelle never recalled Evan saying something about Keith liking a girl. She turned to him,

chuckled. He

looking at her, he answered, “No. Not

introduce

know yet if that

anyway, that’s when I started

trying to find

words.

before laughing. “I’m pretty sure

admit, the number

you had

not tripled, in the

her. I

but I know my methods were wrong,” Keith said

“The idiotic things we do for love,