A Replacement Bride

Chapter 19

Theodore and Katherine came out of the hospital room shortly after and headed into the office.

He handed her the scientific data he had compiled recently and said, "Right now, we've only got one patient in the clinical trial, so there won't be enough statistics to determine if this medication can help regenerate brain cells in patients who are in a vegetative state. I'm still working on getting more next-of-kins to agree to let their loved ones participate in our research."

Katherine nodded as she flipped through the documents. "Take your time. The world will be shocked once this medication is launched, but a large-scale promotion is unsuitable for now. Make sure you look into everyone who agrees to the clinical trial. A single blabbermouth can put you in grave danger."

They had run the test on white mice previously and gotten satisfactory results.

Alex Rosenburg, who had been in a vegetative state for three years, had woken up after they had used the medication on him, which meant it had to be effective to some extent.

"I'll be in Hovington for a while, so give me a call if you need anything," Katherine said as she handed the papers back to Theodore.

Seeing that she was leaving, he grumbled, "Are you actually going to marry into the Levisays? Why bother with the Cornells when you can do more good for mankind instead?"

He could not understand why Katherine insisted on personally taking out the trash that was the rest of her family when she could easily have someone else do the dirty work for her.

"You don't get it," she said with a dry smile. There was no describing the anger that came over her each time she remembered her mother's agonizing death. Everything Jorge had stolen from her mother and the Olsens, she would make him pay for it in kind.

"I'll get going now," Katherine said. She glanced at her watch and figured Rosemary would be home by now. She smirked and waved goodbye to Theodore, then headed out of the research institute.

An hour later, the ride she had booked through an app pulled up outside the Cornell Residence, and she disembarked.

brightly-lit architecture in front

twisted Lisa's features. Abandoning her image as the ever-loving and demure housewife, she looked as if she wanted nothing more than to tear Katherine into

walked in with her hands in

butler was holding his breath as he appraised her anxiously and could

saw Katherine walk through the

Levisays household soon." Katherine did not dodge as she said this breezily.

glowered at Katherine viciously. She wished she could quarter the girl, but Katherine was untouchable now that she was about to marry into

you do something like that to Rosemary? She goes all out to throw you a welcoming party, and this is how you thank her? How could you be so evil, Katherine?!" Lisa snapped, trembling with anger. Now that hitting Katherine was out of the question, she resorted to hurling

even imagine how terrified Rosemary had been when she nearly got

Rosemary was brought up like a young lady of nobility. The girl was

I do to her? Has there been some sort of misunderstanding, Lisa?" Katherine feigned innocence, though she was secretly cheering when she saw how

she enjoyed more than

to fool me. You were the one who gave Rosemary that wine even though you knew

look and snapped, "Regardless, you shouldn't have abandoned your sister in a den of vices like that in the first place! What if something had happened to

her pretty face as she pointed out unassumingly, "Lisa, it was Rosemary who brought me there in the first place. I couldn't possibly have forced her into bringing me there, could I?

choked on her own rage, her words

the invitation at

was neither passive-aggressive nor hostile, but the effortless way in which she shot down the accusations directed at her

things were, Lisa had nothing on Katherine. She