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.

a stop at

tea from

espresso.

and his shoulders lifted and fell for a second. He replied, “It’s the right

thought I spend

all that plan of taking medicine went down

checking his phone, going to his office, and making excuses like bringing him lunch – among other

restaurant, thinking he was meeting with

lost

started arguing, really,

bad.”

for love, all of which lead me

She said. 1

wasn’t meant

but an affirmation

Keith

precisely what you

do outlandish

what is that statement? Why do you talk about love, Mister Henderson?” She

has ever been in

chuckled and responded, “Shanty, you should know, every playboy has

backstory.”

She snorted as she

seconds, Keith just

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

sexy, the boy next door type, the hot

attracted

he said. “Around two years ago,

Did

Shantelle asked.

say that,”

without talking to

all week,” Shantelle said.

about me during your honeymoon?” Keith

the children’s hospital

took care of those insurance claims when

was

was an awkward silence

between them. Shantelle never recalled Evan saying something about Keith liking a girl.

He ran

hair, and, without looking at her,

introduce you to her.

if that time will

anyway, that’s when

to find the

words.

laughing. “I’m pretty sure

I admit, the number

hearts you had broken

tripled, in the past two

forget her. I know

a place in her heart, but I know my

“The idiotic things we do for