#Chapter 30: Impossible Choices

Aria’s POV Cathy had a good point, so, taking her advice, I started weeding through my case load. Piper made the calls, redirecting some of my patients to new Healers. No one seemed happy about it. An angry few even came to my office to shout at me. Fortunately, the security guard removed them before they could actually attack me. My reputation in the papers didn’t improve. In fact, people seemed more critical of me now than ever before. Dr. A, Legitimate Healer, Or Secret Sociopath Who Likes To Watch Others Suffer? That tabloid headline seemed particularly cutting. Despite my best effort to have a steel spine about these things, the words still sometimes hurt. Could no one see that I was trying my best? “I don’t want to see anyone suffer,” I grumbled when reading it in the checkout line. After checking out, I headed home and taking a warm shower, tried to pull my confidence back together. I had a meeting with Lucian in an hour to discuss the cooperative project some m