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I was worried about Ellie though with all of the crazy. I didn’t want to add to the rumor mill or problems, so I left flowers ather condo with a note that I was rooting for her and hoped she remembered people were on her side. I wasn’t sure what else I could really do besides everything I could to help the hospital.

Fitz was being blocked from everything. He was still technically in the trauma department, but no one wanted to work with him after how he’d behaved. Dr. Carpenter had too much pull and was too powerful.

And he wasn’t listening about staying away from Ellie. Apparently, he thought just not being as obvious about it was enough.

“How would Dr. Carpenter feel if I told him I found you stalking her by her car?” I asked him one night as I finished up… And found him waiting by Ellie’s vehicle.

He turned to blast me, and that was what I needed to take a better picture of him. He was even leaning against her car, but to see his face I would have needed to go past him, but now he looked directly at me and I got the shot I wanted.

My death was in his eyes as he pushed off the vehicle and stormed over to me.

“Please, try it, git,” I chuckled as I tucked my phone away and stared him down with a smirk. “I’d bloody end you without breaking a sweat and we both know it.”

“Stop putting poison in Ellie’s mind to—”

“You have thewrongidea about us,” I finally admitted just so he could stop fixating. I nodded when he frowned. “I don’t even have her number. Mymumwanted me to have a condo in that building because of the security givenI’ma target because my da’s Alpha. I had no clue. I don’t care if she’s rich or poor.You dowhich is all the poison against you she needed.”

I walked away as he cussed me out and threw out more threats. When he said I couldn’t stop him from seeing Ellie though, I snapped and walked back, getting in his face.

“Where is your car? You’re getting into it right now and driving home. She’s got enough of your mess to deal with, and you’re not exploding all of this bile on her when she’s so stressed. If you were aremotelydecent person, you would stop being so selfish and realize you have nothing to offer her. You bring nothing but shite to her life and never treated her right.

“She wised up! She realized how bad you were and wants no part of you. Youregocan’t see it’s you, not everyone else. Yeah, it’s all ofusand you’re perfect. I heard you outside that day yelling and gaslighting her, ranting that she was blowing it all up and being childish.Youdid this. You did. You thought you were tearing her down to be at your level, but she had—”

It took everything I had not to break his arm when he took a swing at me. I grabbed his arm and shoved him away from me instead.

Seriously, this fool was on my last nerve.

“And yeah, I’m reporting that to HR in the morning,” I said firmly before pointing at the camera in the parking garage that would have caught it all.

“Do that and I’ll report her slapping me,” he threatened.

I couldn’t hide my disgust. “You abusive asshole.”

“I’m abusive? She hits me and you dare to callmeabusive?”

“Yeah, because you’re using it as ammo, not really upset. If you were, you wouldn’t go near her and just want it done. But you want to use itagainst herto trap her. That makes you the problem. Seriously.” I growled in his face when he argued. “Seriously, go to therapy, you fucking narcissist. Go get a clue that you’re the problem. I don’t care, just get in your car and leave.”

He finally saw he’d pushed me too far and stormed off. I checked that he really did get in a vehicle and leave. He could come back or just try to stalk her at our condo building. I knew that.

But I was done just watching this mess.

I texted Dr. James and Dr. Carpenter that Fitz had been waiting for Ellie and took a swing at me and what his threat was. This needed to come to an end.

How was this clown still employed? For real?

I didn’t care if he was the best trauma surgeon in the world. He wasn’t worth this.

I felt like I spent the whole week blocking Fitz from Ellie or watching someone flirt with her. She wasinsanelypopular now that people found out she was so loaded. It wasn’t just our condo building that she owned. People looked it up and got the name of the company that was listed as the owner… And pulled what else that company owned.

Four posh condo buildings and two massive apartment complexes.

Where apparently a chunk of the staff lived. That was surprising, and some people changed their attitude about her. I heard several people defending her in the cafeteria that she didn’t jack up rent every year and the management team where they lived was actually great. So if she was in charge of that then she actually did care about people.

So running a hospital wasn’t enough for those fools?

What was wrong with people?

Well, at least they were speaking up for something good.

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