Twins in Her Womb (Bianca and Luke Crawford novel) novel Chapter 1216

Luca smiled slightly when she heard Luke's phone ring. She could recognize the ringtone; it was Bianca's special ringtone.

The ringtone once belonged to her. Jason had told her that whenever Luke heard that ringtone, he would drop everything and immediately pick up that call.

However, the ringtone did not belong to her anymore, and she could not get Luke to set a unique ringtone for her.

Luke had no intention of answering the phone. His eyes remained transfixed on her. He had noticed the slight smile on Luca's face when the phone started ringing. Was she hoping that she would be saved by the call?

Seeing that Luke was not picking up the phone, Luca reminded him, "Mr. Crawford, your phone is ringing."

"I know," Luke said. He had taken out his phone while waiting for her to change. After she stepped out of the bathroom, he put the phone on the couch.

The phone on the couch was ringing non-stop, but he was standing next to the bed.

"That ringtone isn't one of the default ones. You must have specifically set that as a custom ringtone, didn't you?" Luca said. Her eyes were on the phone on the couch.

Bianca probably wanted to check Luke's whereabouts.

Just as she finished speaking, the ringing abruptly stopped.

The room fell into an awkward silence once more. Luca continued, "Aren't you returning the call?"

Luke placed his hands into his pockets. "You haven't answered my question."

"I happened to be there, and I met Mrs. Norman by sheer chance. I noticed that her complexion was pale, so I took her pulse. Her condition happens to be one I could treat." Luca explained her meeting with Queenie as one of pure coincidence.

"How were you so sure about her illness when you only took her pulse?" Luke asked.

Johann said that someone who was able to do that was an incredible physician.

Was it also a coincidence that an incredible physician chose to work in Watson Biopharmaceuticals too?

The growth of T Corporation in the next three years depended greatly on Watson Biopharmaceuticals. Luke could not afford to have anyone mess up his plans.

"It's all a coincidence. I wasn't too sure when I made the diagnosis." Luca remained calm as she said that. She had approached Luke under the pretense of a lie, so any further lies only served to complete the previous one.

She found it very exhausting to keep on making up lies to cover up her previous ones, especially when she had to face Luke's unyielding questioning.

She was never a good liar, and the three years spent on the Island of Despair did not make her a better liar.

"If you're not so sure, why would you give her a prescription?" Luke continued asking.

Luca sighed. "It's not like Mrs. Norman would accept my prescription, isn't it? They would definitely suspect something, and they'd bring the concoction to the hospital for analysis. I thought that a doctor would definitely order a toxicology test when they see the concoction.

"If she decides to ignore my diagnosis instead, that wouldn't have affected me either. Even if I've made a mistake in my diagnosis and she takes the concoction, it wouldn't have negatively affected her health. Most of the herbs in the concoction are nourishing, and her body badly needs the nourishment."

Luca tried to explain that she had never wanted to harm Queenie when making the diagnosis and prescription.

She was worried that she might have misdiagnosed Queenie, so that was why she had given her such a concoction. She did not expect that it would still bring her trouble.

However, Luca did not regret it. She did not want to see Queenie live the rest of her life under the effects of the poison. The longer the poison remained in her body, the greater the effects.

Luke continued to stare at her. His phone began to ring with Bianca's unique ringtone again.