Against Cruelty, She Grew Strong (by Anastasia Glover) novel Chapter 615

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Tammy had initially intended to move directly to the front of the queue, but the exact moment her eyes pinned the aggressive, heavy–handed injection style of the staff, she silently retreated to the absolute back

of the line.

As her turn drew near once more, she slipped out of her position again, migrating right back to the rear. Following several identical cycles, the miners on the ground quickly caught onto the pattern.

“Is Tammy actually terrified of medical needles?”

“Are you insane? That’s completely impossible! Tammy regularly wrestles apex predators without breaking a sweat; how on earth could she be afraid of a tiny needle? She is clearly being incredibly noble, stepping aside to ensure we receive our preventative care first.”

“That must be it! Quick, clear the path and let Tammy take priority!”

The workers harbored a deep, absolute respect for Tammy, so they dispersed instantly, establishing a massive wall of bodies right behind her perimeter.

“Tammy! After you!”

Before she could utter a single word of protest, she was forcefully pushed directly to the front of the medical table, facing the primary practitioner.

Left with absolutely zero avenue for escape and desperate to preserve her fierce reputation, she resolved to simply throw caution to the wind. Rolling up her sleeve, she thrust her arm forward and clamped her eyelids shut. “Just do it!”

The treating physician let out a quiet laugh at her dramatic posture. But just as he lifted the syringe to execute the injection, a firm hand intervened, calmly pressing down on his wrist.

“Allow me to handle this one.”

“Dr. Lucas!”

“You’re on–site, Dr. Lucas?”

“Good morning, Dr. Lucas.”

The surrounding nursing staff erupted into bright, enthusiastic greetings, their expressions written in a layer of absolute, supreme respect.

Lucas had traveled down to the territory as part of a high–profile international medical aid initiative. Beyond his elite surgical capabilities, he was exceptionally generous with his expertise, routinely instructing the local staff. The personnel at the district clinic viewed him as an absolute icon.

A basic preventative vaccination drive was far below the standard responsibilities of an executive medical

the mining site anyway,

director, yet he had aggressively volunteered to accompany the convoy to

“I will take over from here,” Lucas murmured.

11:10 am

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The local physician scrambled out of his chair without a second of hesitation, clearing the

space.

Lucas settled into the seat, But the exact fraction of a second his fingers attempted to make contact with the slender, highly toned muscles of her upper arm, she executed a rapid retreat.

Her arm vanished from his reach.

Tammy’s face was an absolute mask of cold detachment. “I don’t want you treating me. Swap places with someone else.”

Lucas let out a quiet sigh. “My injection technique is exceptionally precise, Tammy; I guarantee you won’t feel a single drop of pain. But if you are entirely determined to select an alternative practitioner…”

He made a deliberate show of rising from the chair, only for her Hand to shoot forward, violently shoving his shoulder back down onto the seat.

Tammy’s expression turned into a scowl of pure, unadulterated reluctance. “If you screw this up and cause me any pain, you are dead.”

Lucas offered a soft, brilliant smile, his voice dropping to a low murmur that barely carried across the desk. “I could never bring myself to hurt you.”

Tammy failed to process the comment entirely, her internal defenses locked in a state of absolute, high- alert panic.

Why on earth did modern civilization invent medical needles in the first place?

Standing by the counter, an assistant nurse couldn’t contain her amusement, letting out a soft giggle. “Miss, you need to force your mind to relax. If you keep your muscle tissue this rigid, the physical impact of the fluid will be infinitely more painful.”

I am desperately trying to relax, dammit!

But my physical anatomy is completely refusing to cooperate with my conscious intellect!

Under the crushing weight of her anxiety, the lean muscle fibers along her biceps locked up until they were hard as iron. Attempting to force a steel tip through tissue that dense was a guaranteed recipe for bending the instrument.

Lucas retrieved a fresh antiseptic cotton ball, carefully tracing the contours of her skin with incredibly gentle, deliberate strokes. To distract her focus, he smoothly launched into a conversation. “I received the reports regarding the recent crisis at the compound. Tatiana constructed an incredibly complex, masterful strategy to neutralize the threat, didn’t she? Her corporate maneuvering is truly magnificent; she completely inverted the entire power dynamic overnight.”

The strategy yielded immediate results. The exact moment Tatiana’s name entered the equation, the rigid tension vanished from Tammy’s features, her eyes turning incredibly bright as she began boasting. “You better believe it! Our Tatiana is absolutely unmatched! And it wasn’t just her; Hubert and Ann operated in perfect synchronization, managing their parameters…”

She rambled on with absolute enthusiasm.

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As her fucus shifted entirely to the narrative, the rigid knots in her muscle tissue dissolved naturally.

Seizing the microsecond opening, Lucas executed the injection with lightning speed. His hand was remarkably fast and entirely steady.

Before Tammy could even register the physical sensation, the procedure was already complete.

“All done,” Lucas murmured, smoothly disposing of the needle.

She blinked in genuine bewilderment, staring at her skin. “That’s it? It’s finished?”

“Yes. Did it hurt?”

Objectively speaking, she hadn’t felt a single thing. This man’s clinical precision was truly top–tier.

Despite the flawless treatment, Tammy refused to offer him a single pleasant expression or drop her hostile guard. She yanked her sleeve down, snapped onto her feet, and marched away from the station without offering a single word of appreciation.

Watching her retreat, the assistant nurse’s expression turned sour with immediate irritation. “How incredibly ungrateful… Who does she think she is—”

Before she could finalize the complaint, her eyes locked directly with Dr. Lucas’s gaze, and the words died instantly in her throat.

Lucas’s voice was completely cold. “Her behavior is absolutely perfect.”

The nurse shut her mouth immediately, terrified to push the matter further.

Lucas remained at the table for the rest of the afternoon, maintaining his position until every single miner on the ground had safely processed through the vaccination lines.

To express his gratitude to the medical convoy, Xavier organized a massive celebratory banquet later that evening, instructing the kitchen staff to prepare an abundance of special provisions. A vibrant, festive energy quickly settled over the entire camp.

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Tammy sat completely alone on the corrugated metal roof of the main barracks, her eyes tracking the sweeping layout of the star–filled night sky as she casually swirled a lollipop against her teeth.

The distinct sound of heavy footsteps echoing across the metal paneling registered behind her.

Without bothering to turn her head, she muttered into the dark, “I’m not hungry, Xavier. I have zero desire to join the banquet.”

The visitor offered no verbal response.

Sensing a shift in the atmosphere, her survival instincts flared, prompting her to snap her head around to scan the roofline.

Naturally, the individual standing in the moonlight wasn’t Xavier. It was Lucas.

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She immediately withdrew her gaze, turning her face back toward the horizon as she resolved to treat his presence like background noise,

Lucas showed absolutely zero signs of offense. He walked over, establishing a strict boundary of two empty seats between their positions before settling down onto the metal paneling. He offered no conversation, letting an absolute silence stretch between them.

Yet his presence was far too heavy to be ignored, continuously grating against her nerves.

Unable to tolerate the proximity a second longer, Tammy braced her hands against the steel to launch onto her feet, but his quiet voice cut through the dark before she could move.

“Your sutures are scheduled to be extracted in forty–eight hours. Are you still experiencing any residual pain from the impact?”

Tammy’s physical recovery capabilities were genuinely miraculous. Despite enduring a violent collision that had split the tissue on her skull, a few days of quiet rest within the compound had been more than enough to fully restore her system. The solitary lasting consequence of the trauma was the total restoration of her forgotten past.

It felt exactly as though the heavens had grown entirely weary of watching her navigate the world in a state of blind ignorance, delivering a brutal shock to force her intellect back into alignment.

“No pain,” she replied crisply.

“That is a relief.”

“If you have no actual business here, I am leaving.”

“Tammy, is sharing a space with me truly that unbearable for you?”

“Looking at your face makes me want to break your jaw.”

“What about Norman?”

“The two of you are identical.”

She maintained a perfectly balanced ledger of disdain; both men were completely tox, both deserved to be entirely discarded, and she wanted zero association with either of them.

Yet the exact second the comparison left her lips, a sudden, soft laugh escaped Lucas’s throat. He looked genuinely, profoundly happy.

Tammy stared at him, her expression a mix of absolute bewilderment and disgust.

“Tammy,” Lucas murmured, his eyes locking onto her face in the moonlight. “Does this mean that both he and I stand absolutely zero chance of ever reclaiming a place in your life?”

She decided not to leave after all, settling back down on the roof with a bright, beautiful smile as she shot him a sharp look. “Am I really supposed to pick between two pieces of absolute trash?”