Tia’s words were stuck in her throat.

Luke would have to attend a meeting in five minutes, which meant if she wanted to appear as an understanding person, she had to take the initiative to leave.

“Sure,” replied Luke.

Tia rose as well and said, “Mr. Crawford, since you have things to do, then I’ll leave first.”

“Oh, sorry to be troubling you with Dr. Craw’s affair,” Luke mentioned Luca again, and he seemed to be very considerate toward her.

Tia was inwardly upset. He invited her over today yet every word that came out of his mouth was about Luca. She was just someone who came to help.

It made her feel like an outsider. She was in love with Luke, and needless to say, this sort of situation would naturally upset her.

“It’s not too much trouble. From what I see, Dr. Craw’s situation seems to be quite serious. I’d love to help if possible. Then I can write in it my lesson plan,” said Tia. She was a part-time psychology professor at A University.

“Sure.” Luke did not say anything more. He arranged the documents on his table as if he was in a hurry to attend the meeting.

Tia knew she should not continue to disturb him, so she left his office.

After Jason watched Tia going farther away, he walked into Luke’s office, closed the door, and said, “Mr. Crawford, they’ve left.”

Luke stopped arranging his things. There was no meeting to attend later. It was just that after the matter was done, he refused to talk to Tia anymore. That was why he arranged for Jason to come in and say that.

Jason asked, “Boss, are you suspecting that Dr. Craw and Ms. Tia are people from the Island of Despair? What’s the purpose of this arrangement?”

If one of them was sent from the Island of Despair, then that would still be fine. However, if both of them were from the Island of Despair, was the other party not afraid of tipping them off?

“There are flaws in their way of doing things, but I can’t just point straight at them and claim that they’re people from the Island of Despair. And their hostility for each other isn’t fake, so I’d like to wait for them to confront each other so I can reap the benefits. Perhaps, their conversation will give the show away,” replied Luke.

He did this all on purpose.

After he saw Luca’s reaction at the venue last time, this thought came into his mind.

When she was being hypnotized, who was the man and the children she mentioned? He was curious about it.

Luke even thought that he was the man she mentioned, but the number of children did not match up. The number she mentioned was four…

Bianca and he had only three kids together…

Jason was secretly cursing in his heart, saying that women’s hostility originated from men.

It was obvious that Tia was hostile toward Luca because of Luke, but he was uncertain if Luca’s hostility toward Tia was because of Luke.

It was because when the other women were busy throwing themselves at Luke, Luca wished to distance herself away from Luke.

Hence, Jason dared not to be certain of it. He was slightly doubting whether Luke’s plan was going to work or not…

After Luca left Luke’s office and went back to her office, she did not say anything. She put on her lab coat right away and brought the data along with her into the laboratory.

The researchers in the lab greeted her.

What happened just now had been suffocating her heart. She was unable to pull herself together, so she simply responded in a muffled voice.

After she sat down, she looked at the data. She was feeling a little irritated. Her efficiency of reading the data slowed down too.

Rhett noticed her behaving unusually and came over to ask out of concern. “Dr. Craw, are you alright? Are you feeling uncomfortable?”

“No.” Luca shook her head and gave him an assuring look.

“I’ve checked this data over and over again. If you’re worried, I can check it again. Perhaps you can go back to your office and take a rest?” Rhett thought she was forcing herself to be in the office, so he thought of taking the initiative to handle matters and let her rest.

Luca pulled herself together and said, “I’m just lost in my thoughts. I’m fine. Off you go.”

Rhett saw her perseverance. He kept his eyes open and went back to his seat, where he continued with his experiment.

Their research had reached an important stage. Once they passed this stage, they could call for volunteers to perform clinical trials.

Luca forced herself to focus and finally finished reading the data. There was indeed no problem with it. Then, she started to lead the team to continue with the research.

Just then, her phone rang. She finally snapped back and glanced around her before she realized it was her phone. Belongs to - All rights reserved.

A few researchers were looking at her because of the phone’s ringtone.

Luca smiled apologetically. As her mind was preoccupied, she did not even notice it was her phone ringing.

She did not even notice it was her phone’s ringtone.

She took it out and glanced at it. It was Nina calling.

Luca held her phone as she walked out of the lab.

A researcher saw this and gossiped with Rhett. “Mr. Link, did you notice Dr. Craw hasn’t been herself today?”

Rhett nodded and explained. “She probably hasn’t rested well. After all, such a serious thing happened to her. Any normal person would be traumatized.”

“Right, I saw the news on the papers. That scene was so bloody that even the reporters were afraid that their drafts would get rejected, so they pixelated the photos right away. And the photo was still red. I heard that the victim’s blood even flowed out to the living room’s corridor. How much blood can a

person lose? There was so much blood at the crime scene. The guard probably hardly had any blood left in him.” The researcher gossiped.

Rhett reminded them, “It’s working hours now. Don’t mention this in front of Dr. Craw.”

“Relax, we’re not dumb. We know what to do,” said one of the researchers.

After Luca left the lab, she answered Nina’s call.

“Hey Nina, what’s the matter?”

Nina’s voice came from the other side of the phone. “Luca, where are you now?”

“I’m in the office. What’s wrong? Why do you sound panicked?” Luca asked.

Nina heard that Luca was working and was reluctant to bother her. “Ah, you’re working. Then just go ahead. I’m just bored and wanted to find someone to go shopping with me.”

“Nina, tell me the truth.” Luca did not fall for what she said as her voice sounded panicked. Something must have happened.

Nina listened to her and felt an inexplicable sense of relief. She paused for a moment and said, “Pierre is at the door.”

“Pierre?” Luca repeated his name, then she remembered. Perrie Mallory was Percy’s younger brother, the bastard who hurt Nina at that time!

“He’s Percy’s younger brother. And it seems like he’s after me. I’m scared…” There was helplessness and despair in Nina’s voice.