The Cold Surgeon's Contract Bride novel Chapter 506

"Just a little injury, it's no big deal. Don't worry, Julian," I said with a reassuring smile, pulling my coat sleeves down to hide the thick white bandages.

Sitting across from me was Julian Zane, a friend I had made not too long ago.

He was a reporter for The Capital Gazette, Leon's buddy, and the man who had charged into the belly of the beast with us once before.

When Leon and I went undercover at Thorne Logistics, Julian had enthusiastically tagged along and proved to be an invaluable asset. Afterward, he joked that we were bonded by fire and officially declared us friends.

I asked to meet him because I needed a favor, but I was genuinely shocked that he hadn't heard a whisper about what just happened to me.

It seemed Ferris had kept a tight lid on the kidnapping.

But Julian's sharp eyes scanned my wrapped wrists, then darted to my face. His expression shifted rapidly, the shock in his dark eyes morphing into a sudden realization. He lowered his voice. "I've been out at Lakeview Postpartum Retreat investigating that Fourth Floor Social Club scandal. I just got back yesterday morning and overheard some guys in the newsroom talking about two female doctors from Capital General getting kidnapped. Before they could even get a crew out to cover it, management killed the story... Don't tell me you were one of those doctors?"

That made much more sense. There was no way a top reporter at The Capital Gazette would completely miss a story like that.

He simply wasn't assigned to the beat, which was why he didn't have the full picture, though he had still caught fragments of the gossip.