I sank back into the chair, my entire body numb as if I had been plunged into ice water.
No one had ever assaulted Sloane.
She and Beckett had been meeting secretly in the abandoned ward building, and Chase had caught them.
Once rumors started spreading, they panicked. Terrified that their affair would be exposed, they came up with an even more vicious plan: create a scandal big enough to bury the truth and shift all the blame onto me.
Every ounce of hatred and contempt from the hospital staff was directed at me instead.
While Beckett lied to my face, claiming he was only protecting Sloane because their fathers shared a life-saving debt, he had already been secretly involved with her for years.
Geller wanted a temperory residence.
Miles had stolen controlled medication.
Chase had s
