Holly choked on her drink and quickly turned away from them.
Kelsie glanced at her retreating figure, her eyes narrowing slightly.
Karen didn’t notice anything wrong and bead even brighter when she saw Serbian staring at Kelsie, dazed.
"See? I told you I wasn’t exaggerating it. When I saw her that night, I briefly forgot I was fighting for my life."
"I even dreamt about her during the surgery and my goodness, when I saw her in my ward after the operation, she seed to have gotten prettier."
"Dr. Sutton, don’t you think it should be illegal to be as pretty as pretty as you?"
She was still rambling when a friend of hers ca to drag her away.
"Here you are. I’ve been looking all over for you."
Unable to pry out of her friend’s grip, Karen smiled helplessly and flashed her thumb at the duo.
"Oh, the burden of being a host. Dr. Sutton, please do this little favor of making sure my cousin doesn’t crawl out of this party."
She disappeared into the crowd of people as soon as she was done talking.
Several seconds after she left, Kelsie and Serbian continued staring at each other without a word.
After a while, her lips parted and he hurriedly turned away.
"Don’t bother. I know my father spoke with Kelvin Reynolds who in turn made you co here."
"So sorry to burst your bubbles, my cousin’s gorgeous doctor, but nothing you say will make have the surgery, so don’t waste your breathe."
Kelsie shrugged and followed after him.
"True, I did co here because Mr. Reynolds said he’d fire if I don’t, but I was also invited by Karen’s father and I did tell him I’d co."
Hearing her, he paused and turned, his left brow perking up in surprise, "What, you’re into older n?"
She scoffed and walked past him in sudden annoyance.
"You used to sound brighter. A sha your illness is beginning to eat into your brain."
For the first ti in several weeks, a smile slowly spread across his face as he caught up to her.
"So what plan to force to have this surgery did my father and Kelvin Reynolds concoct?"
"No plan. I’m here to talk you through it."
"Let’s take a seat, then."
They found a sowhat quiet corner and took their seat.
While he leaned back on his seat and folded his arms across his chest, Kelsie took off her lab coat and draped it around the chair before sitting across from him.
"So Mr. Howard, talk to as your doctor. Why do you not want to have the aurgery?"
The corners of his lips spasd and he glanced to the side briefly, "Did you forget already? I rember telling you in your office that day."
Kelsie regarded him for a mont before placing both hands on the table.
She clamped them together in a pleading gesture, "Forgive for not properly turning you down when you asked out months ago."
"Back then, I didn’t think you were serious and hence, didn’t bother talking it out properly with you."
"Though I rejected you later, I didn’t do so as firmly as I should’ve. So I’m doing it now. Mr. Howard, saving you filled my pockets back then and it’s fine with ."
"I understand that we can’t control our feelings, but making such a ridiculous reason your reason for committing suicide only makes you stupid."
"Because of a woman you don’t know much about, you’re willing to risk the lives of the people who work for your family’s company?"
He listened to her with a straight face before he unfolded his arms and leaned toward the table.
"You’re reading too much aning into it. If I die, the workers won’t be affected at all. Just because he asked you to co talk out of it doesn’t an my father cares about ."
"If I die, he will no longer have an heir, thus, the position of chairman will pass on to his younger brother, which will ultimately strip him of his high position everywhere."
"As soone who believes he is destined for greatness, he doesn’t want that. He has worked way too hard to make sure of it and he isn’t about to sit back and watch his only son take that away from him."
"So don’t you worry about the workers, they’ll always be fine. Maybe even better when my uncle takes the reins."
Kelsie inhaled sharply and leaned back tiredly.
The determination in his eyes, how was she supposed to talk soone so determined to carry out his plans out of it?
She was a surgeon, not a psychologist. If they wanted soone to talk him out of it, they should’ve brought one of those instead.
As she wracked her brain thinking of another way to approach the matter, she saw him push sothing toward her and stared down to see a box.
Judging from its size and shape, it obviously contained a ring in it.
"It’s a ring. An engagent ring I picked out for you a month ago." Serbian inford seeing the confusion in her eyes.
She scoffed, "What part of ’I don’t like you’ do you not understand?"
He inclined his head slightly, fingers unhurriedly drumming on the table as he said, "I understand it quite alright. But I also understand you’ve never really spent ti with ."
"The one ti we were together, there was a third-party, so it wasn’t really a good ti to get to know each other."
"So I believe if we actually spend ti together, you will at least co to like . Which is a promising step before you co to love ."
As soon as he was done talking, she pushed her chair backward and got on her feet.
Wearing her coat, she shook her head in refusal.
"Living such a life is worse than death. You should never be with soone who doesn’t want you. Let alone soone whom you hope will co to love you later."
She walked away almost imdiately.
Serbian watched her leave with a face devoid of emotion.
A mont later, his phone vibrated three tis in his pocket.
So he took it out to view the ssage, but it turned out to be a photo from soone. Three photos of Kelsie and Jett standing together at the race track a few hours earlier.
Now, it would’ve been normal photos with an acquaintance if the third didn’t show her relaxing into Jett’s chest, his hand seemingly stroking her hair affectionately.
Clenching his jaw, he got up and left the party.
At the sa ti, Kelsie arrived at the hospital.
Kelvin was inford the mont she returned and he hurried down to ask her how the talk went.
However, he had just gotten to the door of her office when it flew open and she walked out carrying a moving box, inside it was the naplate usually on her desk.
He frowned, "What are you doing?"
Kelsie didn’t pause as she walked past him.
"I couldn’t convince him to have the surgery, so I’m seeing myself out."
Kelvin was imdiately taken aback.
Earlier, when he threatened to fire her if she couldn’t convince Serbian, he was rely bluffing.
Though he wanted her out of his hospital as soon as possible, he couldn’t deny the fact she brought in the most money.
Most importantly, half the people who visited the hospital were her patients. If she left, she’d be taking them with her. That would make the hospital suffer too much lose.
To make it worse, soone as skilled as her would surely get taken in by another hospital once news of her leaving Haven dical Center spread.
So gritting his teeth, he took long strides until he was standing in her way.
Blocking soone’s path was a confrontational move which naturally attracted attention.
But Kelvin paid their confused looks no heed as he pointed at her office, ordering through clenched teeth.
"Dr. Sutton, get back into your office. We’ll talk about this inside."
But Kelsie suddenly smiled.
"I fear you’ve gotten wrong, Mr. Reynolds. I’m not actually quitting because I couldn’t talk him out of it, I’m quitting because I already planned to."
"Working in the hospital restricts too much and I rarely have ti for myself and family. I intend to quit to start up my own practice."
The dical staffs around gasped while Kelvin smiled like he had just heard a funny joke.
"You’ve only been working here for six months. Whatever money you have saved up will not be enough to open a decent practice."
"So don’t be ridiculous and let’s return to your office where we can continue this discussion privately."
"I appreciate you looking out for , sir, but I’m really at my wits’ end. I can’t take working in this hospital anymore."
"But don’t you worry, I may be leaving the hospital today, but this won’t be our last ti eting."
Her last sentence was more of a threat than a farewell to Kelvin, but the residents and first-years around were already breaking down in tears.
Kelvin clenched his jaw angrily as she waltzed past him.
"What do I have to do to make you stay?"
Naturally, his question made her halt and she tilted her head slightly to the side, watching him from her hindsight as she responded.
"That would be browsing the hospital’s database with your ID, sir."
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