Chapter 62 Forgive You
The day bed she went back to work, Ingrid visited Kenneth at the academy. The was well taken care of, but he kept looking at her liler he wanted to say something “What’s wrong?” Ingridasked, unable to take it any longer.
“II something’s wrong, you must tell me,” Ingrid said, suspicious. “Don’t keep in to yourself ”
“I’m not,” Kenneth said. Then, he quickly changed the subject. “When are you going back to work, Ingrid”
“You’ve lost a lot like six or seven pound in the last two weeks. Maybe you should take a few more days off,” Kenneth said.
plan to lose en pounds, “Ingrid said playfully. “Just take care of yourself. The holidays are coming soon, I’ll come pick you up then”
The next morning, Ingrid went back to work at Peaceheart Hospital Mour of her colleagues thought that shie and Jasper were on vacation somewhere, as she had ceased two weeks off right after perting promoted to head nurse and Jasper was nowhere to be seen during that period.
One of the other nurses teased, “Ms. Leone, why isn’t D. Clifford with you?”
Ingrid kept her expression neutral. “I am currently single. In the future, please don’t say Dr. Clifford’s name with mine. I don’t want to affect his reputation”
Everyone was shocked by that.
Ignoring the whispers behind her, Ingil headed back to her office. They were going to find our eventually, anyway.
She was glad that she had her um office now. At least she had a place where she could stop pretending that everything was fine.
The gossip spread like wilde. Within three hours, everyone in the orthopedics department know that Ingrid and Jasper had broken up. Even those in surgery h had heard. By noon, the | Pearheart Hospital
“Yasper arrived at the hospital that afternoon, and before he even saw Ingrid, he immediately knew what had happened from the looks his colleagues were giving him.
He had two surgeries scheduled that day, each with a supervising doctor and several interns assisting
In the operating thea the patient’s breathing was slow and languid, while everyone be barely dared to breathe at all.
They all knew that Ingid and Jasper had broken up. Just two weeks ago, they had been inseparabla–what in the world had happened to them?
Some assumed that Jasper had initiated the breakup and just let Ingrid be the one to announce it for the sake of appearance.
This was the most widely accepted theory–after all, this was Jasper Clifford that they were talking about. It was everyone’s dream boyfriend. Who in their right mind would break up with
As for the reason behind the breakup, speculation can wild.
Some sighed that Ingrid had been too eager about the relationship, and now her perfect life was crumbling around her. Some possiped about how she had dated both Brandon and Jasper within the same year,
The same people wondered who her next boyfriend would be.
It was typical–getting the perfect man once would be Juck, bu Ingrid had gotten two of them. Behind her back, everyone admired her for her skill in seducing powerful men. Ingrid worked five consecutive days. She knew that Jasper was in the hospital as well, but they never crossed paths.
Jasper spent all his time in the operating theatre, having up to four surgeries back to back in a day. According to the nurse in the OF, by the end of the fourth surgery, he had to take some glucose and lie down for over 30 minutes before he could get to his feet.
Even the outsiders could see that he was working himself mad. But why was he doing this?
Ingrid did not know she didn’t want to know. It had nothing to do with her. Now that she didn’t need to work night shifts, she clocked in and out on time. Not seeing each other was for the best—less need for pretense
By the time Jasper finished his last surgery, it was long past Ingrid’s usual clock–out time.
He stripped out his seuls in the changing room, put on his regular clothes, grabbed his phone, and prepared to leque the hospital.
ran indo Cassandra, who had just finished her own surgery and was exiting the ladies‘ changing room.
Jasper goed her
“Theard you two broke up,” Cassandra said.
“I’m just like you now.” Jasper replied, his woke calm. “You don’t have to iment me anymore.”
Cassandra knew what he meant this was his karma for having bad intentions. He wasn’t mocking her. He was mocking himself.
After a pause, Casundi a rummed, “I’m uny”
“I forgive you,” Jasper uid
Cassandi a stopped as her Hacks, shocked to the past six months since they had argued and broken up, no matter how much the berge, Jasper baditusel tofugher he
She stared at him hopefully—was he finally coming back to her?
But Jasper remained expressionleu “Ingrid uidcould for give you, then she could forgive me. So forgive you.”
He truly didn’t care about Caggandra’s betrayal anymore. In truth, he hadn’t cared for a long ti
