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Lily Thornton was the underprivileged student I'd sponsored for a full ten years. From middle school through college, I covered every penny of her tuition and living expenses. I treated her like my own little sister. When she was diagnosed with a rare disease, I even begged my husband, Graham Forsythe -- Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery -- to personally operate on her. But on the day of her college graduation ceremony. I went to her apartment early to surprise her. And found Graham pressing her into the sofa, tenderly kissing her slightly swollen belly. "Graham, if Serena finds out about our baby, do you think she'll cut off my medication?" Graham pulled her into his arms, his voice laced with that condescending patience of his. "Don't worry. Serena is the kind of woman who's so rational she's practically cold-blooded. She'd never understand the soul-deep connection we share -- two people saving each other." "But to protect my reputation as department chief, she'll fall in line." "Once I get that one-of-a-kind clinical trial slot for the new drug, I'll divorce her and give you and the baby a real home." I stood outside the door, staring at the freshly stamped Phase-I clinical trial authorization in my hand. I didn't push the door open. I didn't make a scene. I simply, with perfect calm, tore it to shreds and dropped the pieces into the trash can beside me. Graham Forsythe. You couldn't have imagined this in your wildest dreams. That clinical trial slot your entire hospital had pulled every string to secure. Its lead research scientist was none other than your wife. The one you mocked for being so rational she was cold-blooded.
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My Husband Cheated With the Poor Student I Sponsored Chapter 10
Another year. Deep winter.Stockholm Concert Hall. The globally televised Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ceremony.I stood on the highest medical stage in the world, wearing a dark crimson velvet couture gown -- minimal in cut, regal in presence.Behind me, the massive curved screen displayed the latest generation of our team's decade-long creation: the Starlight targeted therapy platform.It had not only cracked the genetic sequences of multiple lethal rare diseases.It had achieved the defining breakthrough of an era in precision-targeted cancer treatment worldwide.The audience below was packed with the planet's foremost medical luminaries, tech titans, and members of royal families.The thunderous applause refused to die. It rolled through that grand hall like a living thing.I finished my keynote acceptance speech with quiet composure.And bowed deeply to the room.At that very same moment.On the other side of the Pacific, inside a derelict, wind-torn skeleton of an abando
My Husband Cheated With the Poor Student I Sponsored Chapter 9
Two years later.Graham was granted early parole for good behavior and partial restitution of the embezzled funds.The day he got out happened to fall on a late-autumn downpour.Rain laced with hail hammered the ground like a punishment.I had just stepped out of the National Genomics Laboratory in the city center.My bodyguard held a massive black umbrella over me, escorting me to the door of the armored Maybach.The instant I was about to step inside.A figure came tearing out of the muddy landscaping strip beside the road like a man possessed.He threw himself onto the hood of my car.It was Graham.He was wearing a washed-out, threadbare jacket. His hair was a matted, straw-like mess.Soaked to the bone, he reeked of that sour, musty stench that clings to people who haven't seen daylight in years.The man who'd once been an immaculately dressed, supremely arrogant Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery.Now he looked like a soulless beggar on the street."Serena... Serena, I was wrong!"H
My Husband Cheated With the Poor Student I Sponsored Chapter 8
After Graham went to prison.Lily's reckoning came down on her like a hurricane.Without my funding, and without the targeted therapy keeping her disease in check.The rare illness inside her body broke through like a dam bursting. A total, catastrophic relapse.Mottled patches of blackish-purple ulcers began spreading across her skin.Deep inside her bones, a gnawing agony set in -- like being eaten alive by a million ants.To cling to whatever life she had left.She had no choice but to sign the induced-labor consent form herself, five months pregnant, belly and all.In a standard ward with no pain management, she endured the tearing, brutal agony and delivered a dead baby boy.That child -- her ultimate trump card, the one she'd used to claw her way up and to sicken me.In the end, it was nothing more than a mangled lump of medical waste, tossed into a yellow biohazard bag.She was evicted from that upscale apartment.Dragging her ulcerated, oozing body through the streets, she beca
My Husband Cheated With the Poor Student I Sponsored Chapter 7
Half an hour later.I walked back into the hospital room with Kingsley Biotech's elite legal team in tow.A thick stack of papers — a divorce petition and asset preservation order — was tossed in Graham's face."Mr. Forsythe, please sign."The lawyer's voice was mechanical and devoid of emotion."Based on the evidence in our possession, you accepted kickbacks from medical equipment suppliers totaling twelve million dollars while exploiting your position during your marriage.""You also repeatedly diverted joint marital assets to purchase designer handbags for Ms. Thornton and cover the rent on her luxury apartment.""Ms. Kingsley has filed for court-ordered enforcement, demanding you leave with nothing and return all illegally transferred assets in full."Graham sat slumped on the floor, shaking like a leaf.He stared at the airtight legal documents and couldn't muster a single word of rebuttal.He didn't want to sign.But police sirens were already wailing outside the door.The Medica
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