Mr. Campbell replied, "He’s alright for now, but you might as well take good care of him. If this happened to him again, we would probably not be able to bring him back, no matter how good we are."

Mrs. Conduibh said, "I’m sorry for that. To reward your hard work, I’ll invite all of you to dinner and give you extra bonuses when Tassach gets well."

Mr. Campbell and everyone else’s faces softened when they heard that.

"It’s so kind of you, Mrs. Conduibh, but we’re just trying our best to accomplish our own job, and we aren’t doing it for the reward," explained Mr. Campbell.

"A reward is essential since you’ve saved Tassach’s life."

It was after the small talk was done that Mr. Campbell and his surgical team left.

Tassach was wheeled back to his ward by a few nurses, while Mrs. Conduibh said to Ophelia, "Ophelia, I appreciate what you’ve done today. It’s late now. Why don’t you go home? You’re pregnant, and you can’t stay up late."

Madeleine pouted with contempt upon hearing that.

Even though she should be in the least sincere, Mrs. Conduibh should long have said that, not now.

Probably because Madeleine didn’t like the Conduibhs at all, everything Mrs. Conduibh did seemed hypocritical in her eyes.

fine then, I’m going back with Madeleine now. Please call me when Tassach wakes up, Mrs. Conduibh. Madeleine and I will visit

"I appreciate your kindness,

Madeleine dragged Ophelia

"So, you allow Tassach to bond

"Gracie, please don’t take me wrong. You’ve also seen what kind of situation Tassach is in now. He’s a stubborn man. Once he decides that Ophelia is the woman he will spend the rest of his life with, he’ll never forgive me if I try to stop him. So we might as well go with the flow. But I don’t think there’s a future between Ophelia

stared at Mrs. Conduibh with mixed feelings. She had worked so hard looking after Tassach, but that meant nothing against Ophelia’s little attention to him, and now, even Mrs.

everything like a fool. What did everyone take her

and had always lived an extravagant life. She was the center of attention all the

you take me as a fallback candidate, Mrs. Conduibh?" Gracie asked

in embarrassment, "Gracie, I know you’ve worked hard these days, but you’ve also seen how ill Tassach is, so I have no choice but to be nicer to Ophelia. Otherwise, Tassach would get angry and his condition might take a turn for the worse. I have only one son, and I don’t want anything bad to happen to

softened a

Ophelia into account now. You were the one who proposed making an alliance through marriage to my parents back then, and that’s why

wife. Now Ophelia already married into the Chambers family, and there’s no future between

with a smile,

and they went downstairs. Since it was 1 a.m., there were few people out of

was blowing, and it was chilly at this moment. Madeleine rubbed her hands and asked, "Honey, do

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