Anna was worried that Nina would get killed if she refused to listen to Pierre. What would happen to them if she was gone?

Anna only felt assured after Jean guaranteed that Pierre would not do anything to Nina.

After Nina left the ward, she did not leave the hospital immediately. Instead, she sat in the hospital's garden, looking depressed.

When Johann passed by the garden after sending off a patient who just got discharged from the hospital, he happened to run into Nina who was sitting there. He walked toward her curiously and greeted her, “Ms. Nina, what a coincidence. What brings you here?"

"Oh, Dr. Park. What a coincidence," Nina greeted him gloomily.

Johann noticed that something was wrong and asked, “What's wrong? Why do you look down?"

"Nothing. Do I look down? It's probably because I didn't sleep well last night," replied Nina as she touched her face.

"It doesn't look like you didn't get enough rest. You seem preoccupied. Is it because of your mother's illness..." Johann asked. He had been busy these days. He had yet to have time to check on Anna's condition.

Nina shook her head and said, "My mother is doing fine. Nothing happened."

"Then." Johann continued to ask.

Nina lifted her head, glanced at the sky, and asked, "Dr. Park, aren't you busy?"

"I am. I have to perform another surgery in half an hour," Johann answered honestly. If he had not noticed her sitting alone here, he would have returned to his office.

After all, he and Nina knew each other. That was why he came over to ask about her wellbeing, hoping that he could lend a hand.

Nina smiled and said, "Hurry up and get ready, then."

There was nothing that Johann could do since she refused to tell him. He comforted her, saying, "If something is troubling you, talk to a friend and you'll feel better."

Nina nodded and replied, "I will."

Johann stood up and left.

Nina looked at Johann from behind as he walked away. Suddenly, Luca came into her mind. The only person who would listen to her now was Luca, right?

She called Luca.

Luca was assigning tasks to the researchers in the lab. She had spent an hour looking into the progress of the experiment that they had been working on. Then, she continued to guide the following experiments.

Her phone rang. She glanced at it and said, “Give me a minute."

The researchers nodded.

Luca answered Nina's call and asked in a low voice, "Nina, what's the matter?"

Nina noticed that there was something wrong with her tone and asked, "Luca, am I disturbing you?"

"I just got back to work today. I'm not that busy though. What's wrong?" Luca asked patiently.

Nina smiled bitterly. Luca had just returned to work today. How could she possibly be free? She lowered her voice as she spoke, so Nina thought there were probably people around Luca.

Even though she could not release the anguish in her heart, she said, "It's nothing. I just wanted to ask you out for lunch, but I didn't know you'd gone back to work. It's alright, then. I'll let you get back to work."

Luca could sense that something was wrong with her tone. She said, "Why don't we have dinner together tonight?"

Nina wanted to say yes, but she had to meet Pierre later in the evening. She replied, "I'm busy tonight. Maybe some other time." This content belongs to Nô/velDra/ma.Org .

"Alright." After Luca said that, Nina added, "Alright. I'll let you go now. Bye."

She hung up the phone after that.

Luca shook her head helplessly as she listened to the busy tone on the other end of the line. She thought of giving Nina a call to check on her after she was done with her job here.

After Luca finished assigning the tasks, she was summoned to go upstairs before she managed to catch a breath.

Luca went upstairs hurriedly. Jason placed five folders in front of her. "Dr. Craw, we need these to be translated. Thanks for your help."

"Sure. When do you need them?" Luca asked. She looked at the five thick folders without any complaints.

"The sooner the better. The documents are piling up. I didn't see these yesterday, so it's a little urgent now," Jason said apologetically.

Luca smiled and replied, "Alright. I'll try my best to finish translating them as soon as possible."

"Oh yes, there'll be a meeting in the lab downstairs half an hour later. Remember to attend the meeting." Jason added.

"Meeting? Do I have to attend the meeting too?" Luca asked with a glazed look.

"You're part of the team now. Of course, you have to attend the meeting. Boss had it all arranged." Jason paraphrased what Luke had said before.

Luca nodded.

Half an hour later, she went downstairs with the laptop in her arms. When she walked into the meeting room, she realized the people attending the meeting were the senior management who were in charge of the project.

It seemed like she was the only one who was a nobody.

The senior management team was not surprised to see Luca. Their expressions were normal, and they were busy talking about business.

Tina walked with a cup of coffee in her hands. She saw Luca standing there, not seated yet. She reminded her in a soft voice, saying, “Dr. Craw, your seat is on the right, beside the CEO's seat."

Luca snapped back to her senses and nodded. Then, she went over to her seat.

Luke was not here yet. The senior management team was still discussing the project. The atmosphere was quite peaceful, but somehow, she could feel that something was wrong.

It would be better for Luca to keep quiet and not join their discussion. She turned on her laptop and waited for the meeting to start.

Two minutes later, Luke came into the meeting room. The senior management staff greeted him, "Good morning, Mr. Crawford."

"Good morning, Mr. Crawford."

Luke nodded and sat down in the CEO's seat, while Jason sat on the other side.

"Everyone is here. Let's start the meeting. Dr. Craw, you'll be in charge of taking the minutes," said Luke.

Luca quickly nodded and said, "Noted."

Although Jason did not inform her earlier about her job for the meeting this time, after the experience last time, she was fully prepared. She took the recording pen out and began to take the minutes.

The whole meeting was about the tender project in Europe. Luca was taking the minutes and listening to their meeting. They had already begun to write the tender document, but Luke was dissatisfied with the contents.

He listed out everything he was dissatisfied with and had the department managers follow up with the matter.

He could find fault in the tasks that were assigned to every department. Luca was taking the minutes and glancing at the management team at the same time. They all looked depressed. She was not sure if it was because they would have to work overtime to fix the mistakes, or if it was because they had been criticized by Luke so badly as though their efforts were useless.

The meeting was held for two hours. Luca never once stopped typing on the keyboard while taking the minutes.