the cold wall, my body aching from a long shi
ar surgeon, was an hour late for dinner,
his lab, a small romantic g
mily Carter, his research assistant, her hand tracing patte
lmost perfect," she
ck with a betrayal that had
ce shifting from unguarded affe
k, but Emily' s saccharine sweetness painted me as
on his ambition, until I saw the truth: this was a
who supports his dreams, not someone w
three months, the man who preached
me, or you're in the way. Deci
is ambition, an
he symbol of a broken promise, dro
as the sound of our
number and drove away from the building, l
g one thing with chilling certainty: this was over, a