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Lucy's dejection had Gwendolyn launched a final appeal to Lucas.

“Mr. Gomez, could you please help my friend? Melanie's a beautiful and bright kid. If we don't find a bone marrow donor soon, she'll only have half a year left to live.”

As her words fell, tears welled in her eyes.

Lucas took a sip from his teacup and croaked, “This is your plight. I'm sorry, but I can't help.”

His rejection was firm and brutal. Getting to her feet, Lucy gave him a bow and apologized, “Sorry for taking up your time then, Mr. Gomez.”

With that, she walked toward the door, utterly dispirited. Gwendolyn got up hastily when she noticed Lucy's behavior.

After shooting Lucas a bitter glance, Gwendolyn chased after Lucy.

“We'll think of something, Luce.”

Once they were outside Lucas' condominium, Lucy leaned into Gwendolyn and burst into tears.

Lucy stammered through her sobs, “I-I thought there was h-hope for Melanie. What should I do n-now?”

Gwendolyn was furious, yet she could hardly drag Lucas off to the operating theater. She felt as helpless as Lucy.

marrow donors, Luce. There are tons of people in this world. I'm sure

before suggesting, “Why don't you track down Melanie's father or his relatives? There's a higher chance for a

that some things would always be outside her

Gwendolyn, “Okay.

begging so many people for help these days that a few more hardly dented her

that, both women left The Estuary, Lucas'

meantime, Lucas dialed Patrick's number. The line only connected after a

and impatient voice

teased, “Someone's in a bad mood without his personal secretary by

Patrick browbeating Gwendolyn into working at his company. Patrick had made her his personal secretary, stationing her in his office where he could see her

with Felicia, and he was suffocating from the obscene amount of perfume the

taking out his annoyance

of friendship had numbed Lucas to

who came

interest in knowing about Lucas' visitors, Patrick deadpanned, “I'm busy. I'm

Gwendolyn

As expected, Patrick did not make good on his declaration to hang up, and Lucas failed

say you were busy?