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Chapter 17~ Guilt

Author: Natie
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“Ivy, what happened?” Ryan asked anxiously the moment he walked into Ivy’s hospital VIP ward.

He had rushed over the moment Ivy called and said she had been injured. Looking at her legs covered in bandages, guilt crept into him and squeezed his heart.

Ivy lay on the bed as the doctor tended to her.

“Ryan, you’re here,” she said in a soft pitiful voice. “Don’t worry, I’m fine, the injuries are not serious.”

Hearing her say that when she was clearly in pain filled Ryan’s heart completely with guilt.

He glanced at the doctor and inquired, “Doctor, tell me her condition. How is she?”

The doctor who happened to be Ivy’s physiotherapist, Richard Hart, looked at Ryan and sighed.

“Why was Miss Williams left alone without help? It could have been dangerous and life-threatening,” Doctor Richard said.

Ryan’s heart jumped into his throat. Life threatening?

He never wanted to experience someone dying because he couldn’t protect them again. It was the worst feeling ever.

“Is she ok?” He aske
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Maria Rica Yumang
Need to see the real color of Ivy. Very manipulative woman in disguise.
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Liliuokalani
The ML to be a business person don’t have the ability of read people intentions always with the lame excuse of the pity he feels for that bad woman. When he knows about what she did to he’s wife waiting for that chapter
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Jessica Beth Tolla
so ivy paying off the doc
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