Chapter 4

"What the…"

Terry’s jaw nearly hit the floor. It was the same line he had just used on Rena!

He had claimed his Porsche was a symbol of his youth, and now Miles was saying the Beetle was a symbol of love, even calling it their "matchmaker."

Miles's expression turned cold. "So, are you going to pay or not?"

"I'll pay for it! I'll pay right now!" Terry was fuming inside, but didn't dare say no to Miles.

Miles let him go and took the phone from Rena's hands while she was still too stunned to react. He pulled up a payment code.

In moments, the sound of a money transfer notification came through.

"Get lost. Don't let there be a next time, or you won't get off this easily." Miles gave Terry a solid kick and sent Terry sprawling once he had the money.

Terry was still shaking with anger when he spotted Ben Lewis, the head of Central Hospital's Medical Affairs department rushing over with seven or so security guards.

Instantly, Terry's mind started scheming. He called out, "Dr. Lewis! I was just beaten up by your hospital's doctor! You'd better take responsibility for this!"

Since the Lopez family did business with the hospital and Terry had been after Rena for a while, he and Ben were already well acquainted.

Ben's expression darkened even more at the sight of Terry's injuries. "What happened?"

Terry pointed at Rena and Miles, twisting the truth. "She crashed into my car and then had her mentally ill husband beat me up. He said the mentally ill can get away with murder, and he even extorted one hundred thousand dollars from me!"

Ben was furious when he heard it.

"You misdiagnosed a living person and sent her to the morgue this morning, and you've even brought your mentally ill husband into the hospital! Just those two things alone are enough to cost you your medical license. You might even end up in jail! And now, you're fighting people in front of the hospital? Do you even care about the law at all?"

He threw accusation after accusation at Rena.

The commotion had already drawn a crowd at the hospital entrance. When the crowd heard Ben's accusations, they started pointing and gossiping.

"Sending a living person to the morgue?"

"Faking a car accident for money?"

"Is she really a doctor? She sounds more like a criminal!"

Ben was quite satisfied with himself as he heard the gossip slowly spreading around him.

Daniel was his brother-in-law, so as soon as Ben heard about the Jenny Scott incident, he knew he needed to stir things up and scare Rena to cover for Daniel. After all, Ben's future depended on Daniel's connections.

Terry jumped in to add fuel to the fire. "We're friends, Mr. Lewis! Just take care of it for me. I'm leaving this in your hands, but I want an explanation, understand?"

"No problem, you can count on me!" Ben replied.

Terry turned around and climbed back into his Porsche.

One of his lackeys whispered, "Those security guards don't look like much. They probably can't even beat that guy."

Terry snorted. "You don't get it, do you? That's what I want. I want him to make a commotion. The bigger it is, the better. It's even better if he killed one or two of them. That way, Rena will have no choice but to come begging me for help."

After Terry left, Ben looked at Rena with a show of authority.

"Well? Are you coming quietly, or should I have them drag you in? Detain both of them. The Scotts… I mean, the hospital will handle this… If it's a police matter, we'll call the police."

He wanted to make sure Rena and Miles were thoroughly humiliated.

Then, the head nurse, Mindy Howard, passed by. She was friendly with Rena and couldn't help but step in and protest.

"Dr. Lewis, is there some kind of misunderstanding here? Everyone knows how impressive Dr. Thompson's skills are. She wouldn't make such a basic mistake."

Ben waved her off, putting on an attitude. "Stay out of this. It's none of your business. Just because she's good at medicine doesn't mean she has good morals. She sent a living person to the morgue. That's a total disregard for life and a major medical negligence!"

Mindy didn't know the whole story, so she couldn't say more.

"You're lying! When I started my shift this morning, Jenny was already declared dead by Dr. Daniel!" Rena was furious and couldn't help but argue with Ben in front of everyone.

A hint of greed and satisfaction flashed in Ben's eyes.

He had once tried to get Rena to have some fun with him, but she slapped him in the face instead. Now that she had fallen into his hands, he was going to enjoy this. That was the price of acting so high and mighty!

"We'll investigate and see who's really at fault," Ben sneered. Then, he barked out his orders coldly. "Take them both to the conference room!"

As four security guards stepped forward, Miles said calmly, "If I remember correctly, the Medical Affairs Department doesn't have the authority to detain anyone."

Ben almost laughed. "Who do you think you are? I don't need to explain myself to you. You molested a corpse in the morgue, and you still think you have the right to a voice? Ask everyone here… Shouldn't someone like you be locked up?"

As soon as he mentioned molesting a corpse, the onlookers gasped in disgust. That was just too much! Some even began shouting for the pervert to be arrested.

Rena frowned and shot Miles a hard look. He was only making things worse by giving Ben more ammunition at this time.

She quickly pulled out her phone to call her father, hoping for someone who could help. Or at the very least, keep Miles from being arrested for something he didn't do.

But just as she started dialing, Ben slapped the phone out of her hand. "Trying to call for help? That won't work! Women like you are always using your looks like some kind of currency…"

Ben spat at Rena's feet.

Rena's face turned red, and she was so angry that her whole body was shaking.

Miles's face turned dark. Rena had always taken care of him for the past three years, even if their marriage was in name only. He felt a surge of rage when he saw her humiliated like this.

"Apologize," he said coldly.

Ben merely sneered.

Slap!

Miles smacked Ben twice across the face.

"You hit me?!" Ben was so angry that the veins on his forehead bulged. "I'll get you thrown in jail if it's the last thing I do!"

"Hit you? Didn't Terry just tell you that the insane can even get away with murder?!" With that, Miles grabbed Ben by the neck.

In an instant, Ben's face turned red and his eyes filled with fear.

"Miles, let go!"

Rena rushed to pull him away, but Miles's expression remained ice-cold. He was slowly choking the living daylights out of Ben, who struggled hard to free himself.

The security guards tried to intervene, but Miles simply tossed them aside while still holding Ben with one hand.

The crowd went silent, realizing this lunatic was not someone to mess with.

"Are you going to apologize?" Miles demanded coldly.

Ben nodded frantically, and only then did Miles let him go.

"I… I'm sorry!" Ben stuttered, then took off running.

But once he was at a safe distance, he shouted, "Just you wait!"

Miles simply scoffed. "I'm waiting. Let's see what you can do!"

Rena frowned. Miles had never shown such violence before. Now that things were completely out of control, she had no idea how to fix them.

Suddenly, both Daniel and Michael appeared, pushing through the crowd while surrounded by bodyguards.