Chapter 24

Irina

I lost the chance to blabber my gut feeling behind the mastermind of the sex scandal as a light banging interrupted up. I pulled myself up and properly perched myself on the chair across the couch from where we were earlier.

“Dr. Waldorf, it's almost time for your rounds, and then we'll get ready for Mr. Smith's surgery in an hour.” The woman was scrolling her eyes at the clipboard as she said this. She flipped back the pages and wrapped it around her arm afterward.

“A moment, please. I'll be right behind you.”

Alonzo plastered her eyes on me and upon feeling it, I stopped playing busy to meet his warm gazes.

“It's a busy day. I wish I could cancel those to be with you, but my patients need me.” Alonzo sauntered towards me and hunched over to get to my lips.

“That's the third time that you kissed me within an hour, smitten much?” I teased him, yet my lips pouted automatically once he leaned over. Alonzo slipped back to his straight stance and laughed.

“For someone who enj