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.

she looked up at the brightly-lit architecture in front of her, a wicked smile

the Cornell household were in a mess. An angry grimace twisted Lisa's features. Abandoning her image as the ever-loving and demure housewife, she

her hands in her pockets,

was holding his breath as he appraised her

Katherine walk through the door. Her nostrils flared as she marched

young lady of this family, and I'll be the lady of the Levisays household soon." Katherine did not dodge as she said this breezily. She even turned her cheek as though to challenge Lisa, whose hand froze

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

how you thank her? How could you be so evil, Katherine?!" Lisa

had been when she nearly got violated at a place

young lady of nobility. The girl was going to marry into an elite family one day and become the matriarch, but not if she

Lisa?" Katherine feigned innocence, though she was

in life she enjoyed more than watching Lisa being

Don't try to fool me. You were the one who gave Rosemary that wine even though you knew it was laced—" As though realizing that she had slipped up, Lisa quickly paused and bit

have abandoned your sister in a den of vices like that in the first place! What if something

itself upon 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? Also, she was the one who insisted on downing that wine. Did she tell you I made her drink

choked on her own rage, her words dying

was right. Rosemary was the one who had asked her out to the bar, and the former had initially rejected the invitation at first. Now that the latter had gotten herself into trouble,

be so infuriating. Katherine was neither passive-aggressive nor hostile, but the effortless way in which she shot down the accusations directed at her was agitating all the

on Katherine. She had to swallow her