"Oh, them?"


    Jean pursed her lips in disdain, exasperated. "They''re our seniors by a few years, and Yew Daley was the one who called them here, saying that they can help us with our internship issues."


    "I see." Winter nodded, but before she could say more, a man with stubble all over his cheeks and who clearly meant business sat down right beside Winter.


    "What''s your name?" he asked, while looking Winter from head to toe pointedly as he inched closer.


    "I-I''m Winter Lawrence," she replied, frowning while keeping her distance.Published by N?v''elD/rama.Org.


    "Oh, Winter? Such a nice name..."


    The man chuckled and pointed at himself. "I''m Dean Summer. I''m your senior by a year, and I''m a physiologist at the Riverton Hospital subsidiary."


    "Over there is Sunny Cabat, an ophthalmologist at Riverton Hospital."


    "And over there is Jarek Wilk, who owns a small hospital in Norsedam."


    The men Dean introduced all smiled and nodded at Winter, but they were looking at her sinisterly.


    Sensing their intention, Winter sprang to her feet and pulled Jean along. "Then Jean and I won''t impose. We have something else to do, so we will be going now."


    "Wait, wait, wait..."


    Seeing that such delicious prey was fleeing, Dean quickly got up and stood in their way, grinning, "Ladies, I''m guessing you don''t know the rules of medical internship since you''ve just graduated?" "What rules?" Jean asked coolly.


    "Oh, there are just the two, and they''re the same every year."


    Dean nced at his two friends, and they all traded smiles. "Since you''re getting an internship, you''ll have work at a better hospital, which means you''ll need a


    rmendation.... You understand that rule, don''t you?"


    Winter scowled and asked coolly, "What are you trying to say?"


    "Patience. Like I said, there are two rules."


    Dean grinned, shaking his head. "We''re your seniors, and we have every reason to give you a rmendation. But..."


    Pausing, Dean leered at Winter''s


    body, lust almost showed on his


    face even as he chuckled. "But we don''t exactly have a lot of free So if you want our


    vele


    rmendation... don''t you think you should sweeten our pot?"


    "So you''re asking us to prostitute ourselves, in exchange for your rmendation letter?''


    Jean was blunt as always, barely hiding her thoughts with her cold smile.


    Dean was taken aback but soon


    smiled and sighed, clicking his tongue. "Come on, Jean. Do you have to make it sound so bad? Don''t you know how much longer it''ll take toplete a full internship? That''s over three to five years learning from doctors, and you only get personally meet the patients after that. Even then, there are still more assessments and reviews you have to go through... all in all, you''re looking at ten years."