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n sighing?" Sapphire asked. "Is

ses, folded them and gentl

rts, and one of her patients was Sapphire, which her eyes se

been your doctor for over six years. I've dealt with

l ever regain my senses again?" Sapphire asked,

hed open her laptop and tu

. Three years already, and you can see the improveme

tient's fi

ther patients, her nerves are already respondin

e rest of my life-numb." The words felt heavy. She placed

ren's face, hoping for any sign that said I woul

ce reality. I can't carry on with the treatm

that, but I kept showing up, not missing a single session because I believe that

my daughter, and wouldn't watch my daughter wasting the years of her life. You just got married. You should be enjoying your marriage. I know W

nd secretly gulped at nothing a

arriage? W

d. "You are an experienced doctor. We can try other methods. I'm su

, you don't need a therapist." Dr. Karen turn

ani

you need is a

gist? But

m to see right through you. Through those unresponsive nerves

her hand from Kare

, and a long silence

So deep that she could see something sh

one? You're the only one that I

her phone and p

er phone and gav

e dinged, a tex

is fine by him. I've contacted him, and he'

hire's head. The only thing that rang in her he

an

ist is a male?" S

a male," Ka

tracing her gaz

said address. "This pla

nerves responding agai

Sapphire answ

ut for you." Putting on her glasses, she took out her

ng nothing to soothe her, rather it increased the weird f

sion with a male. e3cIt wasn't supposed to be this w

odded. "I'll leave now." Grabbing her purse, s

as she noticed her phone had been buzzing long enough in

ion came in. The headline caught her attent

as just been signed. The partnership

they're now business partners. A part

pressed a red button,

hey aimed to achieve. Tears brimmed in the corner of her eyes as she watched Wilson act like the

son about his married life. Her fingers curved into balls whi

into t

to, M

I'll d

e," Sapph

DeVille,

me." Sapphire didn't allow hi

to the rearview mirror conf

d the car handle. "When I'm

iver n

long tired sigh when the driver drove a

ing she was searching for, standi

cing again. Not only did it take three hours to get here

ebumps crawling on her skin as

ng, her eyelids went up searchi

me to?" She mumbled lowly, turning on her ph

t opened on its own. She frowned a

ked, jumping slightly as she twisted her n

n she saw someone that looked like th

er throat before g

t door to your left." The lady's voice s

de her shoe. She felt tongue-tied at the

e, but she ignored the voice, said a low than

t. Stairs after stairs. Never-ending stairs tha

f this

irs. Half a relief washed over her when she stoo

ing, there was no n

wei

ther, both inner voices r

b

't

s are more

, the door opened on its own exa

eld, peeking into the room before ta

cardamom air immediately

blue eyes that locked on her. She didn't know why the eyes felt extremely familiar to her, like she h

overing almost his eyes, and some parts o

d afterno

completed, his voice sendi

he sucked in a long

it

sat on the patient's chair-no lying down-mak

smi

reet

ue eyes that didn't sw

rt. She couldn't make out t

pad, tablet, laptop and papers which she'd deem as patients' reports. Then they

an De