A Replacement Bride

Chapter 159

Several people had gathered at the entrance of the ICU with sad faces. One of them was a grey-haired old lady sitting in a wheelchair. Her eyes were red, and her mood was unstable.

When Katherine and Theodore came over, there was little reaction from them.

Matthew then introduced both parties.

When Emma Bennett heard that, she raised her head and glanced at Katherine and Theodore. However, when she saw Katherine, she froze as if she had been struck by lightning.

"Was it you who came up with the experimental drug? Do you know you almost killed my brother with your stupid drug?!" A woman whose features resembled Emma gave Katherine a mean glance before scolding her in a shrill voice.

However, Katherine did not look at her and said to Matthew, "Prepare an operating room. I will perform an operation on him."

Matthew did not answer right away but subconsciously glanced at Theodore.

"Go." Theodore was unhappy and impatiently waved his hand.

It was only then Matthew hurriedly turned around and prepared an operating room for Katherine.

Jessica Rosenburg—the woman who was yelling at Katherine just now—immediately became angry as Katherine was ignoring her. She then stepped forward to yank Katherine's hand and cursed in a sinister tone, "What's wrong with you? Don't you hear me talking to you? What's the matter? My brother is now in the ICU because of your drug. Are you not going to take responsibility?"

"Are you talking to me?" Katherine calmly looked at Jessica and inquired.

At that moment, Katherine's gaze made Jessica flustered. Jessica wondered if it was just her imagination because that gaze somehow felt the same as how her father would look at her while he was still alive.

and look of yours. There is something wrong with the medicine at your institute! Didn't you tell us yesterday that he will be fine? Why is

senses when she heard Jessica's words before

not dare to continue due to Emma's authority. However, that did

to Katherine. "Miss Cornell, the

patient to the operating room now." Katherine nodded

immediately closed her mouth obediently upon meeting Emma's eyes and dared not

of spite, "She's way too young to be capable of doing the surgery. Why must she be the one to do the surgery on Alex? If he died because of her incompetence,

trap! If you hate to stay in the hospital, scram!" Hearing those inauspicious words, Emma was unhappy and she threw a fierce glare at the woman who spoke out

then pouted and did not

into a surgical gown before entering the operating room with a

room, and Matthew had

not even look at them and walked straight toward the operating table. She lowered her head to look

razor held in her hand, she started to shave off his hair. After that, she took a marker to draw a cross on his head

patient with swift yet accurate motions. The surgery was the same as any other, but when she was the one behind the operating table,

did not call for any

remained in Alex's skull since he was shot in the head back then. As the fragments were located in a place covered with nerves,

fragments remained where it was as he lay there motionless. However, during the time he was discharged from the hospital yesterday, the bullet fragments might have shifted from the original position due to the patient being moved around too much, making his condition take a turn

scalpel away and said, "I'm done. Send him back to the ICU first before moving him to the general ward. As for postoperative care, you should be able to

nodded in unison while looking at her with a gaze filled with

surgery before, but it was not as fast and delicate as her. So, the surgery earlier was simply

the medical