The Cold Surgeon's Contract Bride novel Chapter 558

That one question spawned a dozen more.

After a brief moment of total paralysis, a chaotic storm of thoughts slammed into me.

Did Ferris really know what I was up to?

How could he possibly know? I had never breathed a word of it to him. In fact, I hadn't told anyone what my plans were.

When did he find out?

Did he really ditch Zelda and Zoey today, using buying a milkshake as an excuse just to hide in my pitch-black hallway and warn me about my safety?

Was everything he said true? Was everything he had done lately really for my sake, not Zoey's?

It was a total tangled mess. It messed with my head so badly that I walked up to the wrong door. I spent five minutes blindly jamming my key into the lock until the door suddenly swung open from the inside, revealing a thoroughly bewildered teenage girl. I practically jumped out of my skin and frantically apologized.

Thankfully, she didn't mind and quickly shut the door. I forced myself to focus, checked the apartment number, and finally let myself into the right unit.

But I was entirely out of it for the rest of the night. I forgot to turn on the hot water while showering and nearly froze. When I came out to grab a glass of water before bed, I realized I had left the front door wide open.

Luckily, none of my blunders resulted in a disaster. I carefully double-locked the door and crawled into bed, only to suffer terrible insomnia.

My eyes were squeezed shut, but my brain refused to power down. My mind was consumed by Ferris's frantic, desperate face. His solemn declaration that he did everything for me, and his final, echoing warning: 'Be good. Right now, your safety is the only thing that matters.'

My thoughts spun wildly out of control. I tossed and turned in bed, flipping endlessly until I finally passed out in a hazy blur.