MACKENZIE
“I love you, Doc.” she said.
Those four words plunged my mind into numbness. Before I had a chance to think twice, to tell myself I just heard wrongly, she said it again;
“I love you Doctor Mackenzie, for five years, I’ve been loving you.” She said each word one at a time, gazing differently into my eyes.
How did I not notice? I was that insensitive or she was quite skilled at hiding her feelings?
“We don’t have time for that now, anyway," she said. "We have to save your mate. I know”
"Yeah," I said, steadying my breath. "That's priority, saving my mate." I stressed the mate, just in case she'd forgotten what it meant.
No vacancy left in my heart.
“Can you trust me again?” she asked picking her nails feverishly. “I really want to help you this time around, not get in yo
