Chapter 4
Sloan Kettering Memorial Cancer Center
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
12:00 p.m.
It took Ava a fair amount of self-discipline to stop thinking about Aleksander and concentrate on her studies.
She’d left him standing on the sidewalk—not even thanking him for the champagne, she’d realized later with chagrin—before she’d hustled herself into her apartment.
She hadn’t trusted herself to spend a minute longer in the car after the kiss. So, she’d escaped inside and taken the stairs two at a time to her apartment on the third floor. For a long moment, she had leaned back against the white paint of her front door catching her breath—and not because of the exercise exactly.
She had stood there for a while, thinking about how she could have been having dinner with Aleksander at that mom
