Sera's gaze was so sharp it felt like it could pierce through Karina.

Karina hadn't expected her momentary greed to create such a mess. If she couldn't stay a doctor, she would have no source of income, and her life would spiral further out of control.

"Please, don't do this. Tell me what you want, and I'll keep helping you. Maybe... I could spike his drink for you again, or set up another opportunity," Karina said, grabbing Sera's hand out of desperation.

Sera clearly wasn't short on money. Otherwise, she wouldn't have been able to give Karina such a large sum back then.

All she wanted now was to secure her position at the hospital.

Sera pulled her hand away, a mocking smile on her face. "Set up another opportunity? Do you think Wilfred would fall for it twice? Do you take him for an idiot, Dr. Norman?"

ordinary drugs didn't seem to

now she had

tone dripping with mockery. "Dr. Norman, you must be really talented to get our esteemed director to promote you to assistant. Working so closely with him, you must have so many chances to get near him." She suddenly paused, her gaze shifting to Karina's face. Without warning, she grabbed Karina's cheeks with both hands,

Sera's eyes. She felt like an object, a mere

no idea what Sera would say next, but then Sera unexpectedly burst into laughter. "Relax, Karina. I'm not as crazy as

it," Karina

puts you at someone's mercy." The saying couldn't have been truer at this

laugh. "Look at you, Karina. I really have no idea what Wilfred sees in you. Is it your cowardice that he finds so

were watching a ridiculous clown. Her gaze was filled with amusement and disdain, making Karina feel deeply uncomfortable, though she had

either, Karina replied, her tone flat. "But whatever you've arranged, can't refuse. That said, there needs to be a deadline." She couldn't let Sera hold this over her forever. If word got out, her reputation at the hospital would be ruined Sera narrowed her eyes, her elegant features twisting into a mocking smirk. "Oh my, that's the funniest thing I've third today.

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