Who Knew My Assigned Mechanic Husband Was a Big Shot? novel Chapter 250

An awkward, suffocating silence blanketed the room.

Nobody dared to publicly side against Donna.

Just last month, Donna's father had gifted the hospital a multi-million-dollar diagnostic imaging machine.

Director York forced a diplomatic chuckle. "We are a team, everyone. Vigorous debate is healthy. When the surgery is a success, everyone in this room will be getting co-author credit on the research paper, alright?"

For the remainder of the meeting, Donna didn't utter a single word.

Because Sloane had just received the file, she only had enough data to prove Donna's method was a death sentence; she needed time to map out a viable alternative.

But because Sloane also fell quiet, Donna was fully convinced the humiliation had been a calculated, personal attack.

The battle lines had officially been drawn.

*

They held follow-up meetings over the next two days.

After exhausting debates, the team finally locked in a bulletproof surgical plan.

Since Sloane had engineered the vast majority of the strategy, the department unanimously appointed her as the lead surgeon, with the rest of the team assigned to assist her.

The day before the operation, Sloane specifically tasked Donna with verifying the patient's pre-op labs, requiring her to double-check the coagulation panel and the infectious disease screening.

Why assign it to Donna?

Because ever since her disastrous presentation on day one, Donna had contributed absolutely nothing to the case.

If she remained entirely sidelined, she would become a total outcast in the department, and Sloane knew exactly how isolating that felt.

But Donna viewed the assignment as a petty insult. Refusing to walk down to the lab, she quickly glanced at the digital portal, declared everything "perfectly fine," and vanished into the breakroom to reapply her makeup and scroll through her phone.

The morning of the surgery, Sloane pulled the physical chart to run her final checklist.

She immediately noticed a glaring omission.

She turned to Donna. "Where is the Hepatitis B panel?"

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