Bedmates Soulmates
CHAPTER 227

He was bound to ask why she was sleeping in the stairwell of the hospital carpark.

Then what was she supposed to say?

Should she tell him about Gideon?

About how Gideon kissed her and tried to take her right there on the sofa in her father's ward?

About how Gideon offered to be her sugar daddy, as long as she would stay with him?

Kira had pushed Gideon away, dashed out of the room and ducked into the stairwell.

She kept walking until she'd reached the lowest level.

Then she sat on the steps and cried.

Cold, hungry, exhausted and emotionally drained, she must have drifted off.

What should she say?

One question would lead to another, and then open a can of worms.

She had planned to bury memories of Gideon.

He belonged in her past.

When he showed up at the hospital, Kira was shell-shocked.

Then one thing happened after another.

She hadn't had time to sort out her feelings in the whirlwind of events.

Should she tell Austyn about Gideon?

Kira's head was lowered.

Hernd was racing.

She didn't notice Austyn's face was getting darker.

She jumped when something hard landed on her thighs.

It was her phone.

'Kai couldn't find you at the hospital,' Austyn said. 'I called you so many times. You didn't pick up. I drove to the hospital. You weren't there." He had been so worried, thinking something bad had happened.

Leland's ward was covered by CCTV cameras, one in the room and one in the hallway outside.

Austyn was going to the security control room to get a look at the footage when he ran into Dr

Morrison.

The doctor told him he saw a man leaving with Kira.

Dr Morrison recognised the man as an outpatient at Stamford General.

Liam Cane was his name, the doctor recalled.

Austyn drove home in a daze, shut himself up in the bedroom and chain-smoked.

His imagination tortured him.

What was Kira doing with Liam?

She hadn't wanted Kai to pick her up.

Was that because she had plans with Cane?

Plans for dinner, or something more?

Had she forgotten what happened at the restaurant last time?

Austyn waited for five hours, every painful minute of it.

He flew into a rage the last time he saw her with Cane.

He yelled at her, hurt her shoulder and almost did something unforgivable.

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He told her, in no uncertain terms, that she was not to have any contact with Cane.

She'd nodded like a good girl.

She even swore an oath.

Was all that just for show?

What was she thinking?

How could she do this to him?

Austyn felt blood rushing to his head.

He gripped the lighter in his hand, its hard edge cutting into his palm.

'Kira Hewitt, what did you do with Cane?"

"What do you think I did?"

Austyn pressed his lips into a thin, tight line.

The pain in his palm reminded him not to lose control.

A man and a woman, alone in a room for five hours.

Anything could have happened.

Austyn would think nothing of it if Kira had spent five hours with Kai.

He knew his assistant, and he knew Kira.

But Liam Cane was a completely different story.

He was going to seduce Kira, just like how he seduced Deborah back then.

Kira saw the doubt in Austyn's eyes. 'You don't trust me.'

'Have you done anything to earn that trust?'

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