The Perfect Wife Walked Away
“Professor Lawrence.”
My breath caught. Professor Richard Lawrence, a medical school legend, a titan in the intersecting fields of oncology and immunology, and the chairman of my dissertation committee. When had my teacher returned? This hospital was not the university-affiliated medical center, where he usually resided.
Professor Lawrence’s gaze fell on the monitor data and IV tags at the end of my bed, then his gaze turned to me, heavy with a rare gentleness.
“Alice, you still know that I’m your teacher. Back then, you insisted on quitting school due to your marriage. Now, not only are you in a mess, but even your body has completely collapsed. It appears to me that our next research shoul