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 where it

He had bought her camomile tea from the

espresso.

saw him nod, and his shoulders lifted and fell for a second. He replied, “It’s the right thing. I hoped that you had pursued medicine

thought I spend more time with

went down the drain. Back then, I could not allow Nicole

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

thinking he

head, she revealed, “He lost that client

started arguing, really,

bad.”

for love, all of which lead me to

She said. 1

wasn’t meant to be

an affirmation

However, Keith

what you

you do outlandish

about love, Mister Henderson?”

has ever been in

responded, “Shanty, you

backstory.”

she answered, “Really now? I’m all

just looked at

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

looking sexy, the boy

of me attracted

two years ago, she broke my

Did

Shantelle asked.

say that,”

you left town for two months without talking

all week,” Shantelle said.

me during your honeymoon?” Keith asked with

children’s hospital in Lockwood,’ Shantelle said, lifting her

that.” Keith sneered. “Well, I took care of

Evan was

an

Shantelle never recalled Evan saying something about Keith liking a girl. She turned to him, asking, “Is it someone I know?”

chuckled. He ran his

his hair, and, without looking at her, he answered, “No. Not

I will introduce

that

when

trying to find the

words.

laughing. “I’m

admit,

you had broken

in the past two

forget her. I

a place in her heart, but I know my methods were wrong,” Keith

“The idiotic things we do for