In the lobby of Haven dical Center, a flustered Holly stood with two male cops.
"Ma’am, how long has your friend been gone?"
"What does that matter?"
"Answering our questions will make this pretty easy for us. So, please, tell us how how long she’s been gone?"
"She’s been gone for over an hour and I’ve rung her line more than a dozen tis. If the scary man who called earlier hasn’t hard her, she has no reason not to answer her phone."
"I understand your worry, ma’am. Unfortunately, one has to go missing for twenty-four hours before they can be treated as a missing person."
"Excuse , did you just say twenty-four hours? Who the hell sets these rules? I’m sure people who commits all sort of vile cris all count on ridiculous rules like this to do heinous acts!
"Holly, get an ER ready." Was all Holly heard as soone strutted past her.
She recognized the voice and nodded perfunctorily, "Yes, Dr. Sutton."
Then she parted her lips to continue lashing out at the officers when she suddenly realized sothing and rushed toward the doctor.
Spurning her around, she couldn’t contain her excitent and embraced Kelsie tightly.
"Dr. Sutton! You’re alright. I’m relieved."
She disengaged seconds later and gritted her teeth in rage seeing the bruise on the side of her head.
"What happened to you face? Did that scary man do this to you? Say the word and those officers I called over will go arrest him for assault right now!"
"He-help , please!" Soone groaned painfully behind thrm.
Only then did Holly notice more than twenty n limping after Kelsie.
"What is going on? Who are these people with you?"
Folding both arms under her bosom, Zoe scoffed lightly, "They got into an accident. Team leader just doesn’t know when not to help people."
Holly was slightly taken aback before she began snapping her fingers, trying to recall Zoe’s na.
"Aren’t you Zoe Derruci? The scary man called the hospital to say they’d send all ten of your fingers to Dr. Sutton because you owe them."
"Don’t tell ... those n are the n who threatened you? Did Dr. Sutton beat them up like that?"
The words had just rolled off her tongue when Kelsie turned.
"ER. Holly."
At this, she stopped talking and scurried away.
Zoe also turned to leave when Kelsie called out to her.
"Which one of them did that to your face?"
Recalling her face was also a ss, Zoe gently felt the bruises with her fingers, an embarrassed smile on her face.
"When they told I was suddenly owing them. I panicked and made a run for it. But I lost my footing and fell. On my face."
Kelsie nodded in understanding.
"You may have an infection. So don’t leave until you’ve done so blood work."
Zoe’s embarrassed smile deepened. "I have no money."
"You two stop talking and take to the darn ER before I bleed to death!" An exasperated Aaron Patel didn’t know when he lashed out at both won.
Kelsie and Zoe turned to stare at him blankly.
Quickly realizing his mistake, he slowly sat up and smiled forcefully. "I an, I’m dying here. Please take care of before I die. Please."
Kelsie briefly regarded him before she turned her attention to Zoe again.
"Congratulations, Zoe. Mr. Patel here has volunteered to take care of your dical expenses."
"That’s the least he can do for dragging an innocent person into sothing which has nothing to do with them."
Aaron didn’t dare refuse and hurriedly agreed.
"Yes, I’d do that. In fact, I’ll cover the bills for anything she has to do in the hospital starting today."
Kelsie smiled in amusent then headed to her office without another word.
A mont later, an intern ca by to do the blood work.
Inside her office, Kelsie took out her phone to call her aunt.
But all three calls went unanswered, so she dropped a voicemail instead.
An hour later, a knock sounded on her door and the intern who drew the blood work ca in looking nervous.
"Doctor, I made a mistake in the blood work. I didn’t ask what tests you needed to run and did a DNA test. Please forgive . I’ll be more careful next ti."
Ten seconds later and Kelsie didn’t budge.
After a while, she finally raised her eyes to et the intern’s, "Is that really why you did it?"
The intern grimaced and quickly lowered her eyes to the floor in apology.
"All day, I’ve been thinking of the new DNA isolating machine the hospital got. So interns had the opportunity to use it today and actually got the DNA result in an hour. I wanted to try it too... I’m sorry."
"Does it really work? The least number of days the lab spends extracting, analyzing and comparing is three days. I find it rather ambiguous the machine produces a result in one hour." Kelsie sighed as she got on her feet.
Then she took the results from her.
She was about to toss them into the bins when sothing caught her attention.
"What? These two are related?"
Her eyes flew to the nas on the results and she didn’t know when she laughed.
When she walked outside, Aaron and his n were still around.
Aaron was rather nervous seeing the papers in her hand.
"Do we have any infection?"
She shook her head, "Sothing happened and we’ll need more of your blood works."
"Oh, okay." Without question, he rolled up his sleeves for the intern again.
As she took his blood sample, Aaron leaned toward Zoe a little to balance properly and she glared hard at him.
"Stop touching ."
"I’m not touching you."
"Of course you are. Your clothes are touching ."
"I can’t control that."
"You can by taking it off."
"Stop being so hostile when you’ve totally shattered my nose. If anyone should be upset, it’s ."
"What right do you have to be upset over what happened when you were hired to... forget it. I ought to break your nose so more!"
"What a violent woman. Where the hell do you even co from?"
"A better place than you!"
Watching them bicker like this, Kelsie clicked her tongue and couldn’t help nodding in agreent, "You bicker like my children. Indeed, you’re really siblings."
"How can i... who’s really siblings?" Aaron was about to retort to Zoe when he heard Kelsie.
Kelsie waved the results at him.
"The intern made a mistake. She used your first blood work for a DNA test and what are the odds that she tested you two against each other?"
The re thought of being Aaron’s sibling ticked off Zoe as she quickly refuted, "Whatever you’re about to say, I assure you you’re wrong! I’m an only child."
"Sa." Aaron scoffed.
Kelsie simply threw their results on them then turned to the intern.
"Draw a bit more blood from these two for a second DNA test. Tell those at the lab not to use the machines."
"Yes, doctor."
Aaron briefly read the words on the result before he crumpled the paper and sneered, "We have the sa parents? I’m sure it’s a mistake. If we had the sa parents we would’ve grown up together."
Zoe did the sa and huffed, "And look at , Dr. Sutton. I’m really good-looking, this man, however, isn’t. Genetic can’t be that rciless, can it?"
There was a montary silence before Aaron realized he was being made fun of.
"You’re the one who isn’t good looking. Back in high school, every girl wanted ."
"That’s what happens when people have no taste." Zoe hissed.
Kelsie’s eyes flickered between the two, the corners of her lips curling up in amusent as she watched them.
Then she took a few steps backward, attempting to lean on the wall behind her when she stepped on soone.
"My apologies..." She paused eyes widening in slight surprise when they t Kelvin Reynolds’, "Sir?"
"Let’s talk as we walk." Kelvin barely spared her a glance before he led the way.
"Yes, sir." Kelsie mumd and followed after him.
Briefly glancing at her, he began, "I’ve been made aware you’re acquainted with Serbian Howard."
Kelsie nodded. "A little."
"Do you also know he has a very life threatening illness?"
"I do."
"Do you also know you’re the doctor he put in charge of himself?"
"I didn’t know that."
"Mhm. In the docunt I have, it says he wants you to be the only one who operates on him."
"I see."
He scoffed and stopped walking.
Naturally, she did the sa.
"No, you don’t, Dr. Sutton. He wants you to operate on him, but he has refused to have the surgery. Which is why I’m here today."
"His father tells they’ve spoken to him nurous tis to have the surgery all to no avail."
"It seems he really intends to die. But I can’t let that happen. You see, Haven dical Center has been able to preserve its database and keep it hacker-proof all these years thanks to him."
"If sothing happens to him, the database’s security will be compromised. And frankly speaking, I don’t think there’ll be anyone as good as him to take care of it if he’s gone. But even if they’re as good, I won’t be able to trust them like I trust him."
Kelsie didn’t know if to be happy with this information. Happy that the database’s security would be weaker if...
She paused and internally sighed.
No, it’s too much of a gross thing to be happy about.
Kelvin was quick to notice the thoughtful look in her eyes and frowned hard.
"Are you listening to , Dr. Sutton?"
She snapped back to her present with a nod, "Yes, sir."
Kelvin had no idea she was a good hacker. Hence, her montary zoning out didn’t matter ring any bells in him.
So he continued.
"His death will devastate our hospital in many ways, which is why as his doctor, I’m tasking you to get him to change his mind and have the surgery. You either do that or I fire you."
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