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Chapter 10

Author: Shelley
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
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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

  • My Husband Cheated With the Poor Student I Sponsored   Chapter 6

    Dr. Warren's bow was impossibly deep.A bead of cold sweat rolled off his forehead and splattered against the marble floor."Professor Kingsley, I am truly sorry!""Our hospital's internal oversight failed catastrophically. You were subjected to an unforgivable indignity on our own grounds!"The words detonated inside Graham's skull like a bomb.He staggered back two steps.His back slammed hard against the cold metal of a medical monitor."Director... what did you just call her?"Graham's voice shook. That mask of cultured composure had shattered completely."She's just a back-office clerk in the medical administration system!"Dr. Warren straightened up and turned to face him.The look in his eyes was pure contempt."Graham Forsythe, your blindness is beyond staggering.""The woman standing in front of you is not only the lead developer and foundational architect of the Starlight targeted therapy.""She is also the sole legal heir of Kingsley Biotech — the largest investor behind thi

  • My Husband Cheated With the Poor Student I Sponsored   Chapter 5

    The dial tone cut through the silent hospital room like a blade.Without hesitation, I pressed the speakerphone button."Professor Kingsley!""You've finally agreed to use the secure line to contact us!"From the other end came the trembling, electrified voice of Dr. Bramwell, the head of Crestview Medical Center's top-tier pharmaceutical research division.The entire room plunged into deathly silence.Lily had been putting on a show, clutching her belly and moaning. Now even her breathing stopped.The look of condescending pity on Graham's face finally cracked.He frowned, regarding me with that weary, disappointed expression he'd perfected."Serena, when someone's life is on the line, do you really think it's amusing to stage this kind of charade?""You've truly let me down. Your disregard for human life borders on psychological derangement."I ignored his gaslighting.I looked at that self-righteous face of his and delivered my final orders, my voice flat and cold as surgical steel.

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