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Chapter 29: My affections and wishes are unchanged.

With a final snip and dab of an alcohol-soaked cloth, the operation is complete, and a complete success.

Aures discards her mask and gloves, ordering for the patient to be wheeled to recovery and his chart updated. The nurses depart with a “Yes, Dr Wynne” each. Aures still reels at the title.

“Dr Wynne,” another, far more familiar, nurse aims to get her attention.

“Lilli, what have I said about you and that moniker—” Aures cuts herself off at the sight of the man accompanying Lilliana to Aures’ makeshift office.

He is wearing a military uniform and a white doctor’s coat, looking simultaneously quite distinguished and mildly terrifying. Probably this is just some form of trauma resurfacing for Aures and her terrible track record with law enforcement, but this she files away for later introspection.