04
Nadia’s eyes sparkled with excitement. She must have been waiting for this moment.
Feigning concern, she urged, “Elena, please don’t break up with Silas! If you can’t stand to see me, I can just disappear. Don’t let me come between you two…”
guy!”
A surge of anger erupted within me. If I weren’t so immobilized, I would have slapped her hard.
“Disappear? Nadia, are you for real?! If you really wanted to die, you could have just slammed your head into the wall! Stop pretending to be the good
Her mask slipped, and she instinctively recoiled behind Silas.
Silas, furious that I dared confront Nadia, completely disregarded my condition as a patient and tried to pull me up to apologize to her.
“Elena, who gave you the right to talk to Nadia like that? You’re clearly fine. You’re just trying to gain sympathy! I’m going to expose your true colors. Get up and apologize to Nadia!”
At that moment, Everett, finally fed up, slapped Silas across the face.
“Are you out of your mind? The lab burned down last night, and it’s completely ruined! Do you really think Elena is just playing the victim? Are you that clueless?”
The slap seemed to wake Silas up.
When he saw the video from last night on Everett’s phone, he froze in shock.
“How is this possible? It was supposed to be a small fire. How could it have gotten this bad? What about the specimens? What happened to them? Those can’t be destroyed. If they are, it’s all over for me…”
Even though he knew about the lab fire, he still didn’t express any concern for me.
The colleagues in the room exchanged looks, finally understanding who he really was.
I wasn’t surprised by his reaction.
After all, in my previous life, he became the star of the lab after having me sidelined, reaping all the accolades from our successful experiments. Now, he was only worried about the specimens, terrified it would all come crashing down. Before he could ask any more questions, a crowd began to gather at the door of my ward.
