“I heard it. There's someone downstairs shouting that he's Natalie's father, saying she can't work here.”
Natalie heard the commotion and quickly walked over to the floor-to-ceiling window. She looked down.
Sure enough, she saw Martin Doyle shouting into a megaphone below. A wave of disgust washed over her, like her skin was crawling.
“Hey, hey, what are you grabbing me for? I’m here today to help out the leadership. If you throw me out, you’ll be responsible for anything that happens later!”
Patrick said angrily, “He still won’t leave? Is he a damn leech or what? You all continue the meeting, I’ll handle this.”
Patrick went downstairs to deal with Martin Doyle, hearing the man’s shouting on his way down.
“I’m just a simple farmer from the countryside, and Natalie is my own daughter. I worked my fingers to the bone to put her through college, but as soon as she went off to school, she started looking down on her farmer father.
She said that all the fathers in the city are big businessmen, and I was just a useless farmer. She scammed me out of all my money and then abandoned me, her own father. She just cut me off.
Now I’m old, and I can’t farm anymore, but she still won’t take care of me.
When she married into the Cross family, she refused to support me. Now that she’s working at this research institute, she still ignores me completely. It would be one thing if I were healthy, but I worked myself sick to pay for her education, and now I can't even afford my medical bills.
And Natalie still doesn't care. I just want to ask the directors of this institute, can you give me her salary for my treatment? If I don’t get the money for my medical care, I’m going to die. Directors of the institute, you either give me Natalie’s salary, or you fire her. How can you let someone who abandons her own sick father keep working here? A disloyal, ungrateful person like that!”
“What kind of director are you? I’m her father, of course I have a right. Fine, I know you people don’t want trouble, so you won’t give me her salary. But you’d better fire Natalie.
A person like her, who won’t even support her own father, has serious moral problems. She doesn’t deserve to work in a research institute. If she’d abandon her own father, who’s to say she won't be bought off and leak your institute's secrets? Is that a risk you’re willing to take?”
Natalie came downstairs, her voice filled with fury. “Martin Doyle, what nonsense are you spewing?”
Natalie had initially planned to ignore Martin Doyle's words and let Patrick handle sending him away.
But she hadn't expected him to use a megaphone to slander her so viciously.

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