Chapter 31

Author POV

Professor Andrea sat behind his desk, his jaw clenched so tightly he thought his teeth might snap. The humiliation of earlier still burned across his pride like acid. Never — not once in his twenty years in the medical field — had he been publicly corrected, not to mention defended against, by the president of the hospital… and for a mere resident.

Cora.

Her name alone irritated him.

He had underestimated her. The girl bent, but she didn’t crack. She made ...