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.'

examinations across the board. What used to cost

work spreading, patients would travel from hundreds of miles away-even from other states-just to get

many others in the business, and Winter had expected Fredo's almost

not expect it to

she also knew that if things went on like this, the hospital's

what was at

Winter did not care about her

had treated patients personally on multiple occasions but drew a standard salary like the other doctors. What she cared most about was Frank's expectations and that she must never let him down no matter what.

if she signed Fredo's agreement, that would mean that she was abandoning her cond handing over Zamri Hot anything

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