His Other Life

Is this his other life? The one that I never knew about? The one that he always wanted to come back to?

“Of course. I’m a doctor, after all,” Hayden stated like it was supposed to be obvious.

I was still so stunned that I didn’t know what to say to this new revelation. Of course, I knew for a long while now that Hayden is a doctor, but I didn’t know that he had such a grand project like this in mind.

“Surprised? Why do you have to look so shocked? You didn’t think that I studied so hard all the way through medical school just to become a gang leader, right? Well, if Amelia didn’t wake up, that might have been the case…” Hayden told me with a laugh.

He seemed so relaxed and at ease now that we were far away from the gang business, and I started to wonder if this was what Hayden was really like in his life before he got pulled back to deal with the gang business.

“I’m very surprised. It’s such a big change…I guess…” I admitted truthfully.

“I want to be a doctor because I am a docto