Hitched & Hitched Again: A Comedy of Marital Mayhem novel Chapter 1238

“Dr. Benjamin, I need to take some antidote and a sample of the virus with me for research. Is that possible?”

Elysia was hoping to head upstate to her grandma’s place for help, but she needed to bring the sample with her.

“Take it with you? Absolutely not,” Benjamin replied firmly. “All the samples are in the hands of the Medical & Pharmaceutical Association. I can request that you join my research team, but there’s no way you can just take the virus to study on your own.”

Elysia frowned. “….”

Without the virus sample, how was she supposed to get her grandma’s help?

Benjamin looked at her curiously. “Can’t you just do your research here at the hospital?”

“No,” Elysia said.

“Why not?”

She couldn’t reveal anything about her grandma, so she just stayed quiet for a few seconds before saying, “Honestly, I don’t have any leads right now. I’ll just head home. If you hear about any new developments, let me know.”

She was well aware of her own limits.

This wasn’t the kind of virus she could just crack in a lab. Sticking around the hospital wasn’t going to help anyone.

It’d be better to go home and figure out how to get her hands on that sample, so she could head upstate to grandma’s sooner.

…

On the way home, Elysia leaned against Tarquin’s shoulder, looking completely worn out.

“Something on your mind?” Tarquin asked.

She sighed. “Yeah. This virus is way worse than I thought. If it spreads, it’ll be a lot uglier than that last pandemic a few years ago.”

She felt terrible for the families already affected—and worried for the future.

If this thing really broke loose, nobody would be safe. Her own family would be at risk, too.

The truth was, she wanted her grandma’s help partly for everyone’s sake, and partly for her own family’s.