“What?” Lance asks.
“Do you think you could truly win me back? Allow me to fall for you again? To bear your children when I’m ready?”
“Is this some game to buy more time?” he asks suspiciously, though he feels his heart pounding with hope, “Are you afraid I’m going to harm Charles or his family?”
“No,”Andrea answers without hesitation.
She’s trying to keep calm, but she’s as rattled as ever. She knows that the entire physical examination was a cruel set-up so Lance could make her worry and suffer before going after Charles.
“It’s all my fault,” she thinks, “Charles was just an innocent doctor, and I’ve put his life at risk by asking him to do me a favor. I can’t allow Lance to hurt him because of me.”
“Then what’s this about, hmm?” Lance asks.
Lance removes his hand from her nec
