The CEO's Regret: Chasing My Runaway Doctor

Chapter 5

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pocket. A text message from her landlord: URGENT. Someone bribed night security. Tryi

slammed against her ribs. The only though

ght air burned her lungs. Police would mean questions. Reports. Her identity, her care

ted a sickening crunch of torture

t, her chest heaving, her eyes wild with panic an

in front of the broken door, becoming a human shield. Her

cket. "Mr. Carlisle is prepared to compen

calling the police was worse. There was only one w

go. But your men leave. Now

elevator opened onto the penthouse. Vivian

o open and shut. Kara was curled on the sofa, looking pale and victi

condescending amusement. "The great Dr. Vivia

was not bought. I was abducted by your thugs. There is a diff

n lik

flinch. "You are not the first rich man I have treated. You are merely the

u speak to him that way? You're supposed

ts who need it. You, from what I can see, need an audience far more than y

ushed an ugly

r voice-a razor edge beneath the French accent-that hooked into his attention and refused to

me here in the middle of the night. Your fiancée is c

ned. "My fiancée is i

ra, stopping to look down at the woman who had systematically dismantled her life

erling. "Ster, I don't w

ong moment, then nodded to Owen

tient to be partially undressed. I won't have an audience.

followed, pausing at the door. "I'll be right outside." But his eyes lingered on Vivian fo

rdened. "I know what this is. You're attracted to him. Ever

wife, who had divorced her on their anniversary. "Your romantic arrangements are of

bout the car accident and shattered dreams of motherhood. Vivian listened with half an ear, her trained fingers pressing and

full medical file. Proper imaging as we

? I'm in

t won't change anything." Vivian walked to the door an

nd a full blood panel. I'll

t for hours, and all you can gi

he night," Vivian corrected. "I'm giving you a pr

the set of her shoulders, the way she moved through the hallway as if she owned it. As if he were the intru

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The CEO's Regret: Chasing My Runaway Doctor

Ola Wilde Romance

“Vivian was eight weeks pregnant, holding the warm ultrasound picture, ready to share the fragile secret with her billionaire husband, Sterling. But before she could speak, he tossed a thick document onto the marble table: DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE. "Kara's back," he stated coldly, referring to his childhood sweetheart. "I'm giving her the place she deserves." He demanded she vacate the penthouse immediately, leaving with absolutely nothing. She didn't cry or beg. She signed the papers, touched her flat stomach where his secret child grew, and walked out in her old trench coat. She blocked his number, vanished from New York, and spent the next four years building a new life in Geneva as a top-tier surgeon, raising their twin boys entirely alone. She thought she had finally escaped her past, until Sterling's bodyguards suddenly broke down her apartment door in the middle of the night. He had used his immense wealth and power to force the "genius Dr. Vivian" to treat Kara's ruined uterus. He was completely unaware that the masked, heavily accented doctor he was threatening was his discarded wife, or that his own flesh and blood were sleeping just down the hall. Watching him desperately lavish a manipulative liar with the tenderness he had always denied her, the last thread of Vivian's lingering pain simply vanished. She sent a single, encrypted text to a trusted friend. "The boys are safe. I'm ready to start Phase Two." She was done hiding. It was time to show him how a real war was fought.”