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8: What Hurts the Heart

Author: mooncake_o07
last update Last Updated: 2025-04-24 10:41:30

Aria stood outside the cardiology office, heart pounding for all the wrong reasons. She raised a knuckle to the door and knocked.

“Come in,” came the familiar voice of Dr. Harold. She opened the door, ignoring the sideways glances from nurses passing by. "What is she doing in the clinic of Dr. Harold?" she heard the nurse asks while looking at her secretly, "hey, stop asking. Just do your work."

Apparently, a fellow doctor showing up at the cardiologist’s office was enough to raise eyebrows.

Harold looked up from his desk, eyebrows shooting up in surprise. “Well, well. What brings you here, Dr. Aria?” he asked with his usual cheerful grin. He was famous for being the hospital’s most upbeat physician—until someone tried to misdiagnose themselves, of course.

She stepped in, hesitant. “I... I wanted to get checked.”

Harold’s smile faltered slightly as he stood. “Oh, sweetheart, you’re in the wrong department. If you’re pregnant, OB-GYN is two doors down. Dr. Sheena—”

“I think I have a he
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