"You’ll have to ask your girlfriend that."

He lifted my chin, making me look directly at him. Holding back his anger, he softly asked, "Baby, what’s wrong? Did he hurt you?"

I glanced at Ian’s cold expression from the corner of my eye and hastily wiped away my tears, shaking my head.

"It’s nothing. It wasn’t the doctor’s fault; I was just too shy."

After brushing off the situation with a few words, I tugged at Noah’s sleeve, ...