Luca slowly clenched her fists when she heard that Abel was using Nyla to threaten her.
Indeed, with Nyla in his hands, she had no choice but to obey what he said.
However, she wanted to try to give Luke more time.
“I understand,” Luca said. The next second, Abel ended the call.
In the conversation earlier, Abel had spoken a lot more than he usually did.
Luca could tell that he was getting nervous because of the impostor’s disappearance.
Luca knew why he was so nervous. A few years ago, Luke had brought down everything Robert had built for decades.
Even though Luke did not know who the leader of the current Island of Despair was, he was well- equipped to fight against Abel when it came to it.
Luca put her phone away and closed her eyes.
It was already two days since the impostor Bianca was supposed to take the antidote. Without the antidote, she would soon meet her end unless Luke suddenly changed his mind.
Gale and Rain would not be able to devise a cure for the poison. Even she herself could not.
Luca flipped over and closed her eyes, though she could not stop thinking.
To Abel, the impostor Bianca was nothing more than a pawn, and Abel never had any sympathy for his pawns.
Abel did not care whether the impostor Bianca lived or died, but he did not want her to divulge too much information about the Island of Despair.
It was probably a good thing that the impostor Bianca died. That way, no one would harm Luca’s three children.
Luca opened her eyes and stared into the darkness. Since when had she become that uncaring?
She did not care whether anyone else lived or died…
The only people that she cared for were Luke and her four children.
…
The next day, when Luca arrived at the Watson office, she saw Mo putting up a notice at the notice board.
Luca had never cared for those notices. When she walked past Mo, Mo said, “You’re here, Dr. Craw.”
“Mm. Good morning.” Luca nodded.
Seeing that Luca was ignoring the notice board, Mo reminded her, “Don’t you want to take a look at the notice? It concerns you.”
‘It concerns me?’
Luca stopped walking and turned around to look at the notice on the notice board.
The notice was very long, but the gist was that the T Corporation building had vacated two floors to be an extension of Watson’s research laboratory.
Only some of the researchers from the Technical Department were moving over.
Luca read the notice carefully. Only her team of researchers were moving over.
“Why are we moving?” Luca mumbled to herself. She did not know what was going on.
She thought that Luke was singling her out.
Of course, that was only a hunch.
“Dr. Craw, I’ve heard that it’s because of what happened to your lab yesterday. Mr. Crawford doesn’t trust the security system here, and he doesn’t want the progress of your research to be compromised. Your team will be the first to move there. When other research teams reach the clinical trials phase, they would be moving over too,” Mo explained. In the entire company, only Luca’s team was in the clinical trial phase. : owner of this content.
“Won’t that be very troublesome?” Luca frowned and said.
It would be a hassle to move the computers and laboratory equipment between the two buildings. That would incur a huge cost to the company.
Luca knew that Luke prioritized efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Would he do that just because of what happened yesterday?
“It’s not troublesome at all. The headquarters has already made all the arrangements. There’ll be an administrative assistant handling the move, and you’ll be the department manager when you’re there. Also, Mr. Doyle has arranged for a mover. When your team has finished packing up, the truck will bring the items over to T Corporation,” Mo said with a smile.
She noticed that Luca did not seem happy at all, so she said, “Dr. Craw, you might not enjoy as much freedom in T Corporation, but you’ll be in the city center, and it’ll be much safer there. It’s not a bad trade-off.”
Luca did not think it was a good thing to move there. Luke might be concerned about the security of her research team, but she did not want to be working in the same building as Luke, especially not when Abel had given her a new mission the night before.
She would have to keep her guard at all times when she was there.
Luca massaged her forehead, not paying attention to what Mo was telling her. She made up an excuse and went into her laboratory.
The members of her research team had already read the notice and were busy packing up their equipment.
They had only cleaned up yesterday’s mess, and they had to pack the equipment in boxes again.
The people greeted Luca when they saw her enter the laboratory.
Luca nodded and went back to her office.
Rhett came to her office with several empty cardboard boxes. “I’ve prepared some boxes for you, Dr. Craw.”
Luca nodded and said, “Place them next to the door. I’ll pack up in a while.”
Rhett placed the boxes next to the door and reminded her, “Dr. Craw, you should keep the most important documents securely, and you should bring them there yourself. You can leave the rest to the movers. Just make sure that you label the boxes with your name.”
“Alright.” Luca nodded.
After Rhett left, Cole came into Luca’s office. He saw that Luca was not busy packing her belongings and said jealously, “Hey, Dr. Craw, why aren’t you packing up yet?”
“There’s no rush.” Luca frowned when she heard the jealousy in Cole’s tone.
Was Cole looking for trouble with her?
“Congratulations, Dr. Craw. Your teams are the first ones to move to the headquarters.”
Cole was displeased when he thought that Luca would not be under his management anymore.
He did not expect that his ploy did not threaten her position in the company. Instead, it had helped her!
It was a great honor to be able to work in T Corporation!
Now, Luca alone enjoyed the honor, and she was made the department manager. Also, much to his dismay, Talia was not willing to take the fall alone.
Cole was incredibly frustrated.
Luca replied calmly, “You’ll have a chance too, Dr. Kidman. You can move there once your research is in the clinical trial phase.”
That was what was written on the notice, but Cole knew that being the first had its advantages.
By the time he was qualified to move to T Corporation, he might become Luca’s subordinate instead.
‘How pretentious!’ Cole thought when he looked at Luca’s face. He congratulated her again and left the office.
Luca shook her head. Even though she did not want to move over to T Corporation, the choice was not hers to make. She closed the door and began to pack up the documents.