Zark continued, "I remember telling you that I just met him, but I'm sure he isn't. Just pretend I never said a thing if you run into his wife."

Janice smiled and nodded.

That was when they heard a rush of footsteps down the hallway.

They turned and saw that Eric had returned with a dozen thugs behind him, and Zark chuckled. "I'm surprised you really came. But you'd better be sure about this —you're the hospital chief, and if someone finds out that you were being violent with a patient's family, you'd be facing a lawsuit or even jail time."

Eric stood before him and snapped, "Don't bother threatening me! I've worked hard to reach where I am today, and you have no idea how amazing I am!"

Janice turned to Zark. "What's the story here?"

"What do you think?" Zark chuckled. "We were cooking medicine outside, but that geezer picked up the scent and decided he wanted the lunarise root for himself. He even tried to deceive us, saying that Draconian traditional medicine is bad and pretended to help us dispose of it.

"However, Chief Frankton was insightful. He saw through the geezer's plan right away and exposed him, so he brought his goons to fight for him since he was embarrassed!"

"Huh?!"

actually have doubted that there were people so disgusting if she was not

was

and had been worse than Eric at times, so she would rather they resolve

hospital chief, yes? Just hear me

just apologize and put it behind

you say?!" Eric picked his ears, unable to believe what Janice had just said. "You're telling me to apologize?! Did you take your meds? I don't mind giving it to you straight-prostrate yourself right now, or you'll all

you're being nice, but some people just don't get

with fools, you have to beat them to a pulp, or you'd be wasting your

flexed his wrists and strode toward Eric and his thugs, which amused Eric. "What, do you think you're some martial

fight. If you can't defeat a big

him and punched him right

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