A Second Chance with the CEO After Divorce

Chapter 57:

Belinda came to an abrupt halt. “Someone is after my medicine?” she gasped.

The memory was crystal clear. Just a few days earlier, her doctor had phoned her with an update, telling her that she was currently the most critical stomach cancer patient at Peace Hospital.

Belinda understood that opportunities like this were rare. That was why she had hurried from the party to the airport that very night, making her way back to Nawrin to begin her treatment at Peace Hospital.

Upon her return, she had met with the doctor, who shared that the hospital’s board had convened and unanimously decided she could undergo the new drug treatment, provided she could cover the cost. There wouldn’t be any further complications regarding her treatment. Yet now, merely a week after her first dose, the doctor was on the phone, hesitantly informing her that someone was willing to pay a high price for her medication.

“Well… yes,” the doctor stuttered, clearly uncomfortable. “There’s a patient whose condition is slightly less severe than yours. Her boyfriend caught wind of the new drug on the news… He approached us, adamant that cost was no object, and he wants to purchase the remaining four doses…”

this might be hard to accept, but… there are only a

should I just hand over all my remaining

from her seat, and made her way toward the elevator with a detached tone. “I

“But Belinda…”

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doctor throughout this ordeal, and you’ve treated me well; I’m aware of that. Otherwise, you wouldn’t have rushed to call

Reid exhaled deeply but

funds as well. I can meet their price and even surpass it if

her lips together and responded, “Alright,

“And…”

me. I’m curious to see who’s daring enough to fight over medicine with a patient who has less than three months