With those words, Frank laughed coolly and started to leave.

"Wait... Please wait!" George cried out in anguish, dropping out of bed with a thud as he crawled toward Frank. "Please, you have to help me! I don't want to die. Not like that!"

His cries left Kendra panicking. She rushed up and grabbed her son by the arm as she begged, "Oh, just let him meet Vicky! It's really no big deal!"

"It's not as simple as you'd like to think, Mother!"

Glen explained even as he struggled out of her grasp, his cheeks heating up like a kettle, "You know Vicky's temper—if he sees her and she decides to leave with him, do you think we can stop them? I had to go through great lengths just to convince her to accept the family's arrangement. What if she regrets it once she sees him?"

Sighing, he added, "And don't forget that Titus is still outside. Do you think we can hide this from him? What would he think of us if he finds out? It's going to be a crisis!"

"B-But."

"But we can't let your father suffer and

foreign professor, and we know how that

way I

the doorway, his eyes flashing with determination. "Father will just have to take this

tried to stop him. "That's your father you're talking about! How could you just watch him die! No.

"M- Mr. Lawrence. Please! I'll let you meet Vicky, alright? I'll let you meet her, as long

and Glen quietly as the latter arrived at the doorway as

face, he realized that Glen did not reach his current position by playing on familial sentiment but through

had clearly given up

obviously was not going to do the same... And Frank would not be meeting Vicky if not for

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