After Thea hung up, she looked at James. Her face looked like it was carved out of stone. “James, how dare you. Xara has just started working. You know it’s not easy to make money. How could you borrow three hundred thousand dollars from her?”
“It’s just three hundred thousand…”
James smiled but stopped and shut his mouth when he saw Thea’s icy look. He stood up and said, “I’ll make lunch.”
He went into the kitchen.
Thea looked resigned. She did not know if she wanted to laugh or cry.
James went to the kitchen and put an apron on. He hummed as he began to prepare lunch.
Just then, May sent him a text.
“James, I’ve gotten in touch with Black Snake again. He told me he’d be here tonight and asked for my location. What should I tell him?”
After he read the message, he considered it before replying, “Do you know the repair shop in the west? There’s a mountain called Mount Five Valley south of the shop about ten kilometers away. Just tell him that you’re there.”
“Okay.”
May replied.
James got in touch with Ronn.
“Ronn, any updates regarding the code?”
“Sir, even Jake’s underground intelligence network can’t decipher it. I’ve sent it to the Southern Plains and requested General Grant get an expert. He should be able to get back to me soon.”
“Good. Tell everyone to be alert. There could be some action tonight.”
After he gave Ronn his orders, he hung up, making lunch while thinking.
Soon, lunch was ready.
While Thea was waiting for her meal, Gladys, Benjamin, and Alyssa returned from the hospital.
“Thea, what did you do? How much did you spend on this?” Gladys held her phone in her hand, looking at Thea’s ranking on the Doctor App. She had a stony expression on her face. “Look at this! It’s only been half a day yet you’ve had more than two hundred thousand appointments and treated more than thirty thousand people. Century Hospital is infamous now, and the Internet has nothing nice to say about you.”
Thea just buried her head in her food, not saying anything.
As she ate, Alyssa said, “Mom, I was added to a group chat today. It’s a group that’s trying to help Thea get votes. Whoever makes an appointment gets ten dollars, but if you complete the treatment and vote for Thea, you get a hundred dollars.”
“What?”
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