"Haven't eaten?!"

"Nope!" Dorothy replied with a crisp tone, her mind suddenly ticking over.

What if Quincy was willing to offer her another one!

Wouldn't that solve everything?

Then Everett wouldn't need any plan at all and could directly kick Quincy to the curb.

But things weren't as easy as she thought...

Quincy squinted his eyes, staring at Dorothy for nearly a minute before probing, "What about the medicine I gave you?"

"Tossed it! I was afraid that your stuff could spread and silently kill me! You're a doctor, specializing in these things, how could I compete with you."

"Tossed it?"

Quincy's brow furrowed slightly.

Kevin, who had just returned, sensed something was off and quickly intervened, "Quincy, Ms. Sanchez! Let's not fight now, Mr. Lopez is still resting inside. Can we talk about this downstairs?"

giving you three more days to hand over

plan, quickly seized the opportunity to slip

her, Quincy watched Dorothy's retreating figure with a hint of

she glanced back at Everett's room, the

didn't seem faked... His voice

...

while longer, waiting for the noise outside to cease before standing up. Kevin entered first, holding the antidote and sighed, "This

"Got it."

carefully

after, a knock sounded at

darted back to

Luckily, it was Dorothy.

had roamed around the hospital, saw

her, Everett's face lit up with a

heard you making a

how did it go?" Dorothy raised

third wheel, quickly excused himself, "Uh... I've

when to make a

arms around her, lifting a thumb to her forehead, pretending to be angry, "What did you call me earlier, a cheating scumbag? Huh?"

smiling, "I was acting! Those were

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