The Girlboss Begs For Remarriage

Winter continued, "Your actions will encourage doctors to prescribe them the most expensive medicine, and the poor won't ever be able to afford healthcare! Can you really do such a thing against your conscience?!" "Yes, I can."

Fredo nodded brazenly despite Winter's deafening outburst. "I'm sorry, Ms. Lawrence, but I'm a businessman, not a doctor. Morals and ethics are a joke to me that I have no need for, and all I see is that which makes money."

Then, returning to the catch, he leered at Winter as he continued, "So, are you going to comply and sign my agreement, or will you wait until the journalists charge inside and expose this scandal, while you watch as your hospital falls apart?" Laughing, he then added, "Oh, and don't forget-if you don't sign it, we will build another hospital and invest everything we have in it. Not signing it really doesn't matter at that point."

"I..."

Hearing Fredo's threat, hesitation showed in Winter's eyes.

She was in a dilemma, as she remembered the tenet of traditional Draconian medicine that Frank had taught her: 'The medicine can gather dust on the racks, but if there is one less patient, so be it.'

Winter, who implemented rebates on medicine and medical examinations across the board. What used to cost thousands now cost hundreds,

would travel from hundreds of miles away-even from

many others in the business, and Winter

not expect it to come so treacherously

if things went on like this, the hospital's reputation

went without saying what was at stake when it

reality, Winter did not care about

she cared most about was Frank's expectations and that she must never let

signed Fredo's agreement, that would mean that she was abandoning her cond