They soon lay down on their sides, staring into each other’s eyes from a distance.
Abigail did not sleep well, and appeared tired in the morning before work.
As she tried her best to muster her spirit, a voice called out to her from behind before she could enter through the front entrance of Hotmesh Research.
Abigail found the voice familiar, as if she had just heard it last night.She turned around and found Moneypenny standing behind her.She could not help taking one step backward while asking warily, “What do you want?”
“We need to talk,”
Moneypenny said, and quickly explained, “Master Althoff doesn’t know that I’m here.In fact, he’s too sick to order me around.Coming to see you was my own decision.”We have nothing to talk about.”
Abigail refused him right away, and started toward the building again.
Still, Moneypenny jogged up and stood in front of her.
“Master Althoff has made errors in judgements, but having you marry Master Diarmuid was definitely the best thing he had ever done.”
Abigail knows that Moneypenny was appealing to her emotion, just as she never forgot everything Henry did—be it good or bad.
She had decided to see past it since it was in the past, but she would still hold Henry’s treatment of Diarmuid against him.
He was clearly treating Diarmuid unfairly, when he was the one who hurt Diarmuid first.
As for her, the only thing she must do now is to sever all contact with Henry, and let them live their own lives.
“I’m begging you.I know that you are a doctor with honors and influence.Maybe you can help Master Althoff—”
“I’m afraid I can’t help you—he has brain cancer, while my speciality is cardiovascular diseases!”
With that, Abigail turned away and strode off, leaving Moneypenny standing there helplessly.He turned in dejection and returned to the hospital, where Henry was laying in his sickbed.His life was only sustained by medication, including a monthly injection that cost 150,000 per month.Still, the cost was nothing to Henry, since the Althoff estate was still loaded—their lifestyles were hardly affected even after the fall of Light Group.
“She’s not coming?” Henry asked just then.
Moneypenny did not dare to answer him directly in fear that it would shock him, and instead turned his crosshairs on a nurse.
“What are you doing? Don’t you know how to do your job, or you can’t see that Master Althoff’s lips are parched?! Get him some water!”
The nurse quickly went toward the water dispenser, only for Moneypenny to snap, “Save it.Get out of here.”
He poured a glass of water for Henry himself, but Henry refused it.
“Answer my question already.”
Moneypenny sighed.
“It seems that she’s taking after Master Diarmuid now, after being with him for so long.”
In other words, he was telling Henry that Abigail’s stance was exactly like Diarmuid’s.
“Fine.I’ll see her myself.”
“Your body can’t take it,”
Moneypenny reasoned.
“I just need to make a few more trips.”
Henry shook his head.
“That’s not going to work.”
He understood Diarmuid, and that the only way to reach him was Abigail, since she just might prove reasonable.
“I’ll call the doctor to check on you.I’ll prepare a wheelchair if he allows you to leave,” Moneypenny said, and Henry nodded.
Lulu Adams was working as a clerk.
Zachary Slate has not found her since, and she was going to look for Ricky Bernstein after work today, to tell him to send Barbara and her husband home.
She did not have to hide now that Zachary was not stalking her, and they still had much to live for.She was going to leave when her doorbell rang.She stiffened, wondering if Zachary was here again.
Was he really not giving up? But this time, she was not averse—she actually looked forward to it ever so slightly.
Still, as she opened the door, the person lunged at her, knocking her to the floor before she saw who it was!
Lulu’s back struck the floor the instant she fell and there was a dull thud! Her head was left ringing and she started to black out.
Ricky quickly scrambled to his feet.
“I’m so sorry! I just wanted to hug you, but my foot slipped.Did you hit your head?”
Lulu narrowed her eyes, her sight of Ricky blurred as her consciousness started to fade!
“Lulu? Lulu?”
Ricky called out to her, even smacking her face.But she did not respond.
Panicking, Ricky whipped out his phone, but he fumbled and dropped it on the floor.
Still, Lulu stirred as he quickly reached for it.
“Urgh…” she murmured, feeling like her head was splitting.
Ricky heard her and he quickly turned back to her, calling her name.
“Lulu?”
She was frowning as she said, “Help me up.”
Ricky helped her to the couch, asking in concern, “Did you hit your head? Do you want to get checked?”
Lulu looked at him and shook her head.
“No.”
“But you—”
“You can send Barbara and Tobias home now, Ricky,” she said, cutting him short.
“why?”
Ricky was actually confused.
“Zachary is definitely going to abduct them and threaten you again if I did.We should keep them hidden.”
“No, he won’t,” Lulu said.
“And they need to go about their normal lives instead of staying in hiding constantly.”
“Did he tell you that he won’t? Can you really believe him?”
Ricky exclaimed even as he held her hand.
“Don’t be fooled.He must be up to something.”
“No, he’s not,” Lulu said.
Ricky finally realized it.
“Y-You trust him that much?”
Lulu took her hand out of his and rose to her feet, keeping her back to him while she walked to the window.
“Thanks for taking care of me all this while, Ricky.I’m sorry I got you into this.”
Ricky was left staring at his own hands.
“It’s no problem.”
“Lulu, what…”
“I think I remember everything now.” Lulu said, but she still did not turn around.
“I owe you a lot.”
“I don’t mind doing it for you.” Ricky grinned.
“Go home, Ricky.I want to be alone.”
Ricky turned silent, and he eventually said, “Alright.Contact me anytime something comes up.”
“Yeah,” Lulu murmured softly.
Once Ricky left, however, she headed to the table and picked up her phone to make a call.
It was soon answered, and Lulu said, “I have a favor to ask.”
“Sure,” the other person replied.
“Tell me.” Abigail felt acid in her cup when she started drinking.
It was a small amount and the taste was faint, but she sensed it immediately thanks to her intuition as a doctor.
She could understand and tolerate pranks and harassment, but if she really drank this acid, she would be half-dead if not outright dead.
While she could let it go before, she refused to do so this time! She did not even go to Dennis Turner, and she went straight to security, demanding security footage.
She noted in her mind each time she took a water break and asked for the footage during those times, which in turn made searching more efficient.
There were cameras covering every corner of the research center, and she checked through the footage on the main screen.
Although there were many people walking around that area, they could still clearly see anyone who got too close to the seat.
There was a routine meeting at 10 AM, so no one was around, but a figure suddenly popped up on screen!
Abigail stared closely at the person on the screen right then.He was looking left and right, ensuring that no one was around, before walking to Abigail’s seat.
The cameras clearly recorded him spiking her cup, and Abigail’s hands clenched at her sides even as she watched.
As her expressions darkened, she told the head of security, “Send me a copy.”
The man said, “But we’re not supposed to do it without the director’s approval…”
“Just give it to me.I’ll talk to the director myself.”
“But…”
“He’s going to retire soon, and everyone in this building knows that I’m the one who will succeed him,”
Abigail snapped, her tone becoming stern just then.
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.
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