Chapter 6

The moment Henry finished speaking, the banquet hall fell silent.

Had Jonas actually been cleaning the toilets? And now Henry wanted him to make perfume to mask the stench?

What a humiliation.

Jonas curled his lips slightly. "Henry, if you like the scent on Serena so much, put her in the toilet to mask the stench. They smell the same anyway."

The guests watched them with even greater interest.

Serena's expression instantly darkened.

Henry feigned concern. "Serena, I'm just doing this for his own good. How could he say that about you?"

Serena was already fuming over Jonas' indifference, and now she was livid. "I think Henry's suggestion is a good one."

She turned toward Adam. "Take every perfume Jonas ever made for me to the hospital and use them to mask the smell in the restrooms!"

Just then, Matt came running over. "Ms. Quinn, I have great news! We found a matching heart for Mr. Black. It should arrive in a few days."

After Jonas had returned, Serena had spared no expense searching the world for a heart suitable for his transplant. She had promised that from then on, she would put him first in everything.

But right now, she was still fuming. "He looks perfectly fine to me. I don't think he needs a heart transplant. Henry is up for promotion to associate chief physician soon. Give the heart to one of his patients instead."

Serena had expected Jonas to panic and give in to her. After all, she knew how painful his heart attacks were, and a severe one could even put his life at risk.

Yet Jonas only looked at her with contempt. "Suit yourself. You could give him 100 hearts, and he'd still never become a real doctor. He's nothing but a fool with blood on his hands."

He would be gone in three days anyway. If the heart could save someone else, it would be a good deed.

"H-How could you slander me?" Henry was so angry that his face paled.

Serena's chest heaved with rage. "Jonas, don't you regret this!"

Erica rushed forward and shoved him hard. "You're a bad man! Get out of my birthday party! You're not welcome here!"

Jonas staggered from the push. After he steadied himself, his gaze turned cold. He shoved Erica to the floor. "You're a rude brat. If it weren't for George, I wouldn't even bother to look at you."

Ignoring Erica, who was crying on the floor, he turned to Serena. "I came to the party. Now return George to me."

Serena laughed in anger. "Fine. George's ashes and portrait are in the company's cold storage facility. You're in a hurry to find them, right?"

She ordered the bodyguards, "Take him there right now and let him search to his heart's content!"

The bodyguards dragged Jonas away roughly and threw him into the cold storage room, where the temperature was below -4°F. The door slammed shut, and the lock clicked.

The bone-piercing cold immediately surrounded Jonas. He looked at the endless racks, with no idea where George was. But still, he kept searching through them.

The chill pierced him to the bone, making his whole body tremble and his teeth chatter. Suddenly, a sharp, tearing pain shot through his chest.

The low temperature had triggered another heart attack.

Jonas clutched his chest in agony and curled up on the floor as his consciousness gradually faded.

In a daze, he felt someone wiping his face with a warm towel. Then he heard Serena's voice.

"When will he wake up?"

Matt replied, "The doctor just gave him his medication. Maybe in a few hours."

Serena hummed in acknowledgement. "Have all the people who bullied him and asked him to clean toilets been fired?"

"Yes."

Matt hesitated, then asked, "Ms. Quinn, if you care about Mr. Black so much, why did you lock him inside the cold storage room and give the heart to…"

Jonas felt Serena caress his face. "He's too stubborn. He used to dote on me so much, but a year ago, after what happened with Richard, he kept causing trouble. Just because I misunderstood him, he actually jumped into the sea and faked his death to scare me.

"Since I really did owe him, I put up with him for the whole year. But he just kept going too far, testing my limits again and again. Now that he's getting a taste of hardship and learning some humility, he'll realize how good I've been to him. There's no harm in performing the surgery then…"

Matt sounded concerned. "What if you really break Mr. Black's heart?"

Serena stood up, her voice firm. "That won't happen. He loves me. If he could really bear to leave me, he wouldn't have come back a year ago."

…

After Serena left, Jonas slowly opened his eyes.

First, she had thrown him into hell, then she had pretended to come to his rescue, expecting him to be overwhelmed with gratitude?

No fucking way!

If it weren't for George, he would never come back to this place and look at Serena's repulsive face.

The system's voice rang out in his mind again. "Two days left until the mission ends."

Jonas slowly propped himself up and glanced to the side.

To his surprise, George's ashes and portrait were sitting on the cabinet.