Chapter 8

My face slowly drained of all color.

Liam didn’t ask for my permission again and directly played the recording.

All my questions and interactions with him in it clearly weren't aimed at helping him recover his memory.

Instead, under the guise of therapy, I was prying into his life and privacy over the past two years.

His eyes, like dark, bottomless pits, were daggers cutting into my face.

The words that came out were utterly devoid of warmth:

“Is this how Dr. Hayes abuses her professional position to casually flirt with men?”

I felt utterly mortified, my clenched nails digging into my palm.

I was so numb I couldn't feel the pain, only the sticky warmth of blood.

We remained locked in this stalemate, so much so that neither of us heard the knock on the door outside.

The recording continued to play, and as it neared its end, Chloe, Liam’s fiancée, burst in.

She pushed open the inner door, speaking with some unease:

“Sorry, I just came by, hope I’m not interrupting your session…”

Her voice abruptly cut off, and she sharply glanced at Liam’s phone.

From the phone, my voice continued to play.

“What am I going to do? I still love you so much.”

“It must have hurt terribly…”

Chloe stared at the phone in disbelief.

Soon, her face darkened, and she strode over in her heels, taking Liam’s phone.

She trembled as she checked the recording, fast-forwarding quickly from the beginning to the end.

She then finally confirmed that, during the hypnosis session, I had abused my position as a doctor.

I had pried into her fiancé’s privacy.

And then, at the very end, I had shamelessly uttered those extremely flirtatious words to her fiancé.

There was no video with the recording, but a woman’s imagination, well, it knows no bounds.

Undoubtedly, she had already pictured the look in my eyes and my gestures towards her fiancé as I spoke those words.

Her elegant and gentle face twisted into a furious snarl.

She raised her hand and slapped me hard across the face.

“So it was you! A psychologist, my foot! Ugh, disgusting!

“I saw through you last night! You’re absolutely disgusting!”