Part 7
My husband, Antonio Kaufman, wanted me to participate in Eloise’s clinical trial for a drug she had been working on. She was his first love.
After refusing several times, he secretly swapped my medication with the experimental drug used in the trial..
At first, I didn’t notice any changes, nothing was out of place, but then I started to feel the effects.
It turned out the side effects were so severe that I suffered a brain
hemorrhage. His first love, Eloise Pitts, couldn’t handle it.
So the hospital demanded that Eloise stop her research, and Antonio wast asked to perform a surgery on me, but he decidedly refused.
He quickly denied it all, “The brain hemorrhage is due to the patient’s personal condition. Eloise’s experimental drug is irrelevant to this. I’m the patient’s husband and went to the same medical school as Eloise. I can vouch for her.”
I remember how Eloise pretended to be my friend when my husband introduced her to me, making me believe she had no interest in him.
Over the years, I turned a blind eye to every affectionate gesture they had for each other, and I thought it was only because of their long friendship.
Lately, I thought he was being distant with me because I did something wrong, or because he was so busy with work, but the truth was he was with her all the time.
“You’re not going to operate on me?” I asked, my face half–paralyzed, reaching out my hand at him.
Antonio slapped my hand away. “I’ll leave it to Eloise. It will provide the final data for her thesis.”
His words woke me to the harsh reality–I was just a guinea pig for his beloved Eloise.
He secretly swapped my medication with Eloise’s experimental drug. causing my brain hemorrhage. Now he entrusted my life to Eloise, who had never performed proper surgery.
He was definitely out of his mind.
“If you refuse, you’ll die. You know your life is in danger.” Antonio looked at me with cold eyes, unconcerned.
I tried to stay calm but failed, tears streaming down my face.
My condition was too severe to wait for other doctors. Was I really going to die in the hands of my husband’s first love?
Finally, Antonio’s superior persuaded him to operate.
Of course, he was not happy about it, but I knew he was going to do everything he could to save me, or else the name of her precious Eloise would be in ruins.
As I was wheeled into the operating room, Antonio shot me a wicked smirk. It made me feel like something bad was going to happen.
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