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“Ben, I’ing up with a s at me “Eli Philip Davenport, have you lost your mind?”

“No, but I’m about to How can she still be employed?”

“Who are you talking about, and stop yelling!” she yelled ironically

Taking a deep breath, I pinched the bridge of my nose “Hannah Hannah Sophia Harper I hope she is not still working at this hospital”

“Why wouldn't she be?” She calood doctor”

“Mother!” Do not yell Do not yell Again, I took a deep breath “Mother, she can’t work here She—”

“Why, because she left you? She broke your heart? All of those are personal reasons, Eli I can’t have her fired for that, and you know it”

You’ve got to be kidding me “Mom”

“Sweetheart, as yourher skinny little neck ’til her head pops off But as the chairwoet involved with personal matters between doctors That is the risk you took when you chose to see each other Dr Harper is a good doctor, and this hospital eood doctors”

“When did she come back?” I whispered

“A week ago—”

“A week!”

She folded her arms over her chest

“A week ago I was here, why didn’t I see her?” Not that I wanted to

“Because she asked to be put on a different floor and a different rotation than you Why were you on peds anyway?”