His unwanted wife, the world’s coveted genius by Derk Blaylock

Chapter 105:

Baker seemed bent on making her life difficult. Belinda knew that to him, only Kylee mattered. Whether she found happiness or languished in misery seemed entirely irrelevant to him.

When Lucas noticed the bitterness in Belinda’s expression, his brows furrowed slightly. His tone was calm but firm. “My dad wrote them a check for five hundred thousand. Medical expenses and a bribe to keep their mouths shut about the matter.”

Belinda’s eyes widened. “He did?”

She had not expected Harold to do that. For a moment, she was at a loss for words. The chill she had carried since that incident seemed to thaw. Warmth spread through her body, softening her heart.

Seeing her subtle smile, Lucas snorted in disdain.

really easy

The next day.

General Hospital, Cardiac Surgery

before, a high-risk elderly patient had been admitted to the hospital, and now, the team was gathered to review the case and determine their

that time to seal the tear in his artery using a stent. However, earlier this morning, he was rushed back to the hospital complaining

of the ascending aorta and the entire aortic arch. Additionally, a 5-centimeter aortic dissection aneurysm has developed. The aneurysm’s

takes

words sank in. The doctors exchanged uneasy glances, but no one spoke. Type A aortic dissection was infamously known as a “death sentence,” with a high mortality rate even under the best circumstances. For an

silence stretched on, broken only when Darlene suddenly asked, “Dr. Ortiz, if you were to perform the surgery, what would the

in the room, he reluctantly answered, “Thirty… No, forty percent.” He had started to say thirty but

response did little to ease the tension in the room. A forty percent success rate was far from ideal—too