Chapter 459

Harvey lifted the employee ID dangling over Irene's chest and read it.

"Jane Tanner? I didn't think that it'd be you," he said in surprise. "I was actually wondering where I should start searching."

He was impressed that he recognized her despite the face mask, too.

As a matter of fact, Harvey had found out that Isaac might invest in the fully artificial heart project and was going to poach a certain doctor from Mead Clinic.

Since Isaac was known not to fail, he wanted to poach the doctor before Isaac could, and then put his own money in the project.

However, he had no experience in the medical field, let alone any contacts he could speak with.

As such, he came here looking like an idiot, and was kept out of the staffs quarters.

Frustrated, he paced around outside when he saw Irene came out, and grabbed her like he was grasping at straws.

"Come with me," he told her as he pulled her along.

Irene was at a loss for words, and simply grabbed the nearest scaffolding.

Harvey had to turn around right then, and when he saw just her eyes and forehead, he blurted out what he was thinking right then. "Irene...?“

He did not mean to say it out loud, but it left Irene terrified.

to hide, and Harvey saw the

did she have to

to pull off her face mask, and was left staring at

those were burn scars, were they

an explosion, with her face left utterly

"You..."

to admit it even as he

Those burn scars...!

"...You survived?"

her head while speaking in Minervese, "You have

struggled as hard as she could, but that only made Harvey hold on tighter to her, preventing her

and now Minervese?" Harvey pointed out as he leveled a piercing gaze at her. "You're definitely afraid, and you wouldn't be

Let me go." Irene kept on speaking

to hide, the more she was exposing

was staring fixedly at her. "You survived... No, you faked your

then, Irene finally looked up to

red and he wrapped his arms around

alive..." His voice was choking

other hand, Irene did not expect herself to be so easily recognized, and felt at once feeble and

said in refusal and kept holding

to

said, and finally remembered that she was

he asked, "Sorry, I didn't mean to

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