The next morning.
David knocked on Yasmine's ward door, his face haggard, as if he hadn't slept all night.
"Yasmine." David had a polite, distant smile on his face. "I'm here to say goodbye."
Without waiting for Yasmine to ask a question, David continued quickly, with an obvious insincerity. "I'm very sorry to leave just before your due date, but I'm really going to resign..."
"Is it because of my husband, Xavier?" Yasmine interrupted him, "If it's because of him, you don't have to worry anymore. I talked to him last night, and he won't make things difficult for you anymore."
"I..." David was stunned as if he didn't expect Yasmine to be so blunt.
He let out a long sigh, scratched his hair, no longer the insincere and polite alienation he had just had, and said sincerely, "I'm sorr
