Diarmuid gave her hand a squeeze.
“Why get so cagey when we’re married?”
“Mr.Althoff.”
The bodyguard standing by the car greeted him.
He was dressed in black, his hawkish eyes sharp and his figure burly, giving him the appearance of a bullet ready to fire! Diarmuid nodded slightly.You’re my wife’s protection from now on.”
“Of course, Mr.Althoff,” the bodyguard replied, then turned toward Abigail.
“Ma’am.You can call me by my codename: Eagle.My tenets are duty, loyalty and courage.I pledge my life to keep you safe!”
As one of the best bodyguards Nine Lives Securities had to offer, his salary went up to 450,000 per year.
Naturally, his job as a personal bodyguard could also prove challenging.
Still, Abigail was unaccustomed to such a formal atmosphere, and she simply cleared her throat as she said, “I’ll be counting on you.”
Diarmuid told her, “Go on.Try to get used to it.”
Abigail nodded, understanding that he meant getting used to the bodyguard.
“Okay.See you.”
“Yeah,” Diarmuid replied, while she walked up to the car, and Eagle opened the door.
After she got in, she wound down the window and looked at Diarmuid.
“Bye.”
“I’ll come to pick you up in the evening.Try to finish work early.”
“Okay.”
After they drove to Hotmesh Research, Abigail alighted and told Eagle, “You don’t have to follow me inside.”She could not work with someone following her around, and having him wait in the car was more than enough.
“Of course, ma’am.”
Abigail was just about to head inside when Seth Hedge rushed towards her.
“It’s already noon, Abigail.I’ve been waiting for a while uw Abigail ignored him right away and directed Eagle, “Keep him away from me.”
“Yes, ma’am.”
Eagle strode forward, intercepting Seth right then.
Seth glared at him for a moment.
“What are you doing?”
“Please leave.”
Eagle’s booming voice was stern.
Feeling the pressure, Seth turned toward Abigail.
“Who is he?”
Abigail, however, did not want to answer and simply continued toward her office.
Seeing that Abigail was leaving, Seth shouted in desperation!
“Abigail! I know what Harvey did! I’ve already given him the beating of his live, so could you please forgive him—”
Abigail wheeled on him right then, her gaze as sharp as it was cold!
Abigail was seething.
Seth had to keep mentioning that repeatedly and he was asking for something so unreasonable! Forgive? Not in her life! “Eagle, I want him out of my sight.I don’t want to hear him speak.With that, Abigail turned around, not wanting to spend another second there…
Until a sharp shriek gave her pause! Abigail turned to see Seth on the floor, clearly in a lot of pain, but also unable to make a sound! She raised a brow at Eagle, who explained, “He can’t speak now, ma’am.I’ll now take him out of your sight.”
With that, he carried Seth out of the building effortlessly as if he was a chick.
When he returned, Abigail commended him before returning to her office.She must give it to him— professionals were just built differently, and were utterly efficient! “Director Bernstein.”
Yolanda quickly went up to greet her fawningly when she saw her arrive.
Abigail ignored her and called out to Finn.
“Call the head of robotics to the meeting room.I need to speak with him.”
After all, the artificial heart was not flesh but a machine that could take the place of a heart, and the design requires meticulous production.
Still, Finn told her, “Actually, Director Turner is here…”
“Where?”
“He’s speaking with everyone.Come on, let’s go.”
Abigail followed, and soon heard Dennis’s laughter.
While Abigail had basically taken over, Dennis had yet to formalize his retirement—they were still in the middle of a handover phase.
Seeing Abigail’s arrival, Dennis smiled.
“So, the challenge.Are we still doing it?”
Everyone was silent, and Yolanda said as she joined them, “It’s fine.Everyone respects her now.”
Dennis waved her off.
“An agreement is an agreement.Let’s do it while I still have a say here.”
He picked two from the crowd right then.
“Raven, you were a heart surgeon before you joined us, and everyone acknowledges your ability in stitching.You will be Abigail’s challenger in that front.”
Then, pointed at Yolanda, he added, “You’re the best when it comes to valve surgeries.We will be testing your precision and speed against Abigail’s.”
The two ladies were the toughest nut to crack in Hotmesh Research, which was why Dennis picked them.
Once they submitted, Abigail would not have trouble taking leadership.
Yolanda tried to excuse herself regardless.
“I’m not that good…”
“Quit being humble.”
The challenge eventually began under the director’s supervision, and it seemed that he came expressly for this since he had prepared several pig hearts beforehand.
The first round was the stitching challenge between Abigail and Raven Yew, the final step and a vital part of surgery.
Abigail worked without hesitation, aiming her needle with pinpoint precision and was as calm as a cucumber.
After all, a person’s life was in the balance during surgery, and it meant opening a person’s heart.
A heart surgeon certainly must show great mental resilience! Finn himself had seen how smooth and crisp she worked as she tended to her chauffeur’s injury, and he was convinced she would win even though Raven was herself one of the best in the country.
Once they were done, everyone gave their critique.
Abigail’s was done quickly and the stitching was meticulous, showing no jaggedness at all.
Raven somehow fumbled and missed two stitches, so the winner was obvious.
Abigail likewise won the challenge against Yolanda with her sublime technique.
In truth, everyone had already been impressed by Abigail early on.
After all, she was still young but she was accomplished—a prodigious talent.
“Haha! Like I said, my j-judgment was right—”
Dennis suddenly started wheezing and clutching his chest!
“Director Turner!”
Everyone was left bewildered!
While everyone was caught off guard, Abigail ran forward and lay Dennis flatly on his back, then barked at Finn to get an oxygen mask while punching Dennis in the heart.
It was an emergency resuscitation technique, using the jolt of the impact to restore the heart’s regular rhythm.
Dennis’s sudden suffocation was due to his malignant ventricular arrhythmia, stopping his heart and causing loss of breath.
Finn soon returned with the oxygen mask, which Abigail put over Dennis’s face while continuing to massage his heart.
The process lasted for five minutes until Dennis’s heart rate returned to normal and his breathing turned smooth again.
He was fortunate that help reached him in time.
Helping him sit up, Abigail asked, “Do you feel better?”
Dennis nodded. ’Much better.”
“Director…”
Everyone was watching him worriedly.
Although they were working at a research center, they were all well-versed in the medical field, and Dennis’s symptom was enough for them to tell that it was something serious.
Still, there were many conditions that led to abrupt loss of breath, so they could not nail down which it was precisely. Getting to his feet, Dennis waved them off. “Oh, I’m really not the strapping youth I once was…”
“You’re sick, sir,” Finn said.
Everyone else agreed. You have to tell us. Don’t leave us hanging.”
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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