Daddy, Mommy had been in Prison novel Chapter 392

Seeing the Professor’s number, Georgia suddenly realized something.

Back then, Emilia had asked her to help look after Aston, but with all the events surrounding her for this while, she’d actually forgotten about it.

Had Aston come back to the country already?

Her instincts told her that Professor Lee’s call had something to do with Aston.

Georgia took her phone, went outside into the garden, and took the call.

“Hello, Professor Lee.”

“Are you done with what you’re busy with, Georgia? I saw online that Robert wasn’t dead. Congratulations.”

Benjamin Lee’s voice was as gentle and kind as always. Georgia smiled.

“I’m almost done, Professor. I was thinking of when to talk to you about coming back to work. I’ve got a small lab at home myself, but I don’t have a lot of large-scale lab tools here. Besides, it’s hard to achieve anything being shut up alone. When I’ve resolved one pressing matter, I’ll come back to work.”

Hearing Georgia say that, Lee was pretty happy.

“I was worried you wouldn’t come in to work, too. But Robert’s not gone, and thinking about it, you’ll definitely recover. Back then when I saw news of Robert’s death, I didn’t dare call to ask you if you were willing to come back.”

The two chatted about their respective situations, and Lee finally moved on to the matter at hand.

“You know how Aston’s come back to the country, right?”

Georgia nodded.

“I know he’s come back recently, but I’ve been too busy on my end to notice which day it’d been. Is he back at MU already?”

“I’d been happy he came back when you couldn’t, and I’d even assigned some extra tasks for him hoping he could finish them early. But something’s been off with him ever since he came back. It’s not that he’s not taking his experiments seriously. It’s that he’s taking them too seriously. Aston’s almost shut himself entirely into the lab and isn’t going home at all. He’s just up and resting in the lab.

“I’d tried persuading him and telling him not to go at it so hard. Our lab doesn’t have any set objectives anyway, and health is the most important. He wouldn’t listen at all, and I could only let him be. I can guess at what happened to him and how he’s trying to distract himself with work. But this morning, he hadn’t even gone in to work when the other lab staff gave me a call and said that Aston’s fainted in the lab. He’s in hospital right now. From what the doctors say, he’s worked several all-nighters in a row. With the weather being especially cold recently, he went and came down with the flu, so he’d lost consciousness right then and there.

“Aside from that, the doctors also found that his stomach is acting up again. Stomach bugs are especially serious right now, and he needs to heal up inside the hospital. I already visited him once, and that son of a gun actually wants to leave right away and go back to experimenting in the lab. I stopped him right away, but looking at him, I don’t think he’ll listen to me. I remember you always had a good relationship with Aston, Georgia. You might have gotten a bit distant before, but go visit him and persuade him, will you? Something seemed off with him ever since you two went overseas together, and I think you might know what happened. Please talk to him. No matter what it is, he can’t hurt his own body. He’s got a long life ahead of him.”

Professor Lee’s voice was heavy, and it seemed like he really was worried about Aston.

Emilia had expected such a result. No wonder she’d asked Georgia all that when they chatted and had to have her look after Aston, in case he really did run himself ragged.

“Where’s his hospital ward, Professor? I’ll go see him.”